“My Grandpop Biden, who died very young -- he was -- died in the hospital I was born in six days before I was there.”
What Washington Post found
Biden’s paternal grandfather, Joseph H. Biden, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital on Sept. 26, 1941. Biden was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton, Pa., on Nov. 20, 1942, 14 months later.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (U.S. president) made this claim around 15 August 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 August 2023, 16 days later. Its rating was “Not plausible”.
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.
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