“My dad used to say, ‘Joey…’ — and I swear to God, when he left Scranton, when the coal died — my dad was not a — he was — he was a salesperson; he wasn’t a coal miner. My great-grandpop was.”
Joe Biden
President. remarks in Dearborn, Mich.. Claim dated 18 May 2021.
Washington Post rated thisIncorrect
What Washington Post found
Biden's great-grandfather was a mining engineer. Biden has gotten this right n other occasions.
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In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 18 May 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 May 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Incorrect”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/05/18/remarks-by-president…
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