“Says Joe Biden risks war with Russia because Vladimir Putin doesn’t “believe in transgender rights.”
What PolitiFact found
Russia has moved as many as 150,000 troops to Ukraine's borders in a move to block it from ever becoming a NATO member. Transgender matters have nothing to do with this.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
JD Vance (Republican candidate for Senate in Ohio) made this claim around 19 February 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 February 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
JD Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
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