“President Obama and Vice President Biden never even tried to fix this during their eight-year period. The reason they didn’t try is because they had no idea how to do it.”
What Washington Post found
This is one of those needlessly false claims made by President Trump. Obama took lots of actions to try to steam police brutality.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 16 June 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 June 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- publicpool.kinja.comhttps://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-remarks-by-president-trump-at-signing-of-an-ex-18440…
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