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“I’m all for electric cars. I’ve given big incentives for electric cars.”
Donald Trump President. first presidential debate, Case Western Reserve University. Claim dated 29 Sep 2020.
Washington Post rated thisFalse

What Washington Post found

Nope. Trump has actually proposed to eliminate two of the three key programs — which predate Trump’s tenure — that encourage the manufacture or purchase of an electric vehicle.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 29 September 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 October 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.

Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.

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