“My father "drove a tank through the streets of Paris when the U.S. forces liberated the city.”
Tommy Tuberville
Senator (R-Ala.). statement on the Tommy Tuberville Foundation website. Claim dated 6 Jun 2023.
Washington Post rated thisFalse
What Washington Post found
His father was 90 miles from Paris at the time.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tommy Tuberville (Senator (R-Ala.)) made this claim around 6 June 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 July 2023, 52 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Tommy Tuberville has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://web.archive.org/web/20160522021840/http:/www.tommytubervillefoundation.org/about/
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