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“President Obama issued 18,000 pardons or commutations during his time in office.”
Joe Biden Claim dated 5 Oct 2020.
The Dispatch Fact Check rated thisFalse

In short

Joe Biden made this claim around 5 October 2020. The Dispatch Fact Check (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 October 2020, 2 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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