“Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these [Hamas] attacks.”
What FactCheck.org found
The $6 billion released as part of prisoner swap is Iranian money that was being held in South Korean banks. Iran hasn’t yet received any of the money, so it could not have been used in recent Hamas attack.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (Former President) made this claim around 7 October 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 October 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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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