“Says Donald Trump is “the worst jobs president in recorded history.”
What PolitiFact found
Trump, as of now, is the only president since at least Truman to preside over an overall decline in jobs. But any president who served during the 2020 pandemic would almost certainly have experienced a major hit to emplo
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 18 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 September 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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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