“No U.S. presidents elected before Donald Trump were racist.”
What PolitiFact found
Historians agree that various presidents can be considered racist. That includes those who enslaved Black people, those who used racist rhetoric and those who held beliefs that white people were superior to other races.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Former Vice President) made this claim around 22 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 July 2020, 5 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.
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