“Says Joe Biden “tried to cut Social Security and Medicare for decades. … Now Biden’s promising your benefits to illegal immigrants.”
What PolitiFact found
A Trump ad gives the wrong impression that Biden is trying to take Social Security and Medicare benefits away from Americans and grant them to immigrants illegally in the country. That’s not Biden’s plan.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 16 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 September 2020, 9 days later. Its rating was “Mostly 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.
One other organisation checked what looks like the same claim. Their ratings are listed below.
Also checked by
- Washington Post: Four Pinocchios“Joe Biden tried to cut Social Security and Medicare for decades. … Now Biden’s promising your benefits to illegal immigrants.”
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=324394922168836
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