“Says he has been to “Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas” twice as president.”
Joe Biden
U.S. president. A speech. Claim dated 16 Dec 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Joe Biden has not visited Afghanistan or Iraq while president.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (U.S. president) made this claim around 16 December 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 December 2022, 4 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.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUEC-_JcdX4
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