“Says his administration has issued several thousand special visas to Afghan translators.”
What PolitiFact found
The number is about right, but most of the visas went to family members of people who worked for American agencies or the U.S. military.
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In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 18 August 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 August 2021, 1 day 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.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-transcript-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-interview-…
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