“President Trump didn't say he'd go after a cultural site.”
Mike Pompeo
Secretary of State. on Fox News. Claim dated 5 Jan 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
Mike Pompeo (Secretary of State) made this claim around 5 January 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 January 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Mike Pompeo has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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- mediaite.comhttps://www.mediaite.com/tv/mike-pompeo-falsely-claims-trump-didnt-threaten-to-strike-ira…
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Related checks
- FactCheck.org: False“President Donald Trump "didn’t say he’s targeting cultural sites” in Iran.”