“My wife who — I think, I’m not sure of this — may be the only first lady or second lady to go into a war zone — an active war zone.”
Joe Biden
President of the United States. White House. Claim dated 2 Jul 2021.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
Second lady Lynne Cheney visited Iraq with her husband, then-Vice President Dick Cheney, in 2008.
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In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 2 July 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 July 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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/2021/07/02/remarks-by-president…
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