“Regarding Trump’s January 2021 telephone call with Georgia election officials, “nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later.”
Donald Trump
former president and 2024 presidential candidate. Claim dated 4 Apr 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
Multiple politicians promptly criticized Trump’s phone call and the Fulton County District Attorney launched an investigation weeks later.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (former president and 2024 presidential candidate) made this claim around 4 April 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 April 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
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.
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