“Says Mike Bloomberg “opposed modest proposals during Barack Obama’s presidency to raise taxes on the wealthy, while advocating for cuts to Medicare and Social Security.”
Bernie Sanders
Independent Senator from Vermont. At a campaign rally in Las Vegas.. Claim dated 15 Feb 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Bernie Sanders (Independent Senator from Vermont) made this claim around 15 February 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 February 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Bernie Sanders has 49 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 35 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
Where the claim appeared
- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/sanders-steps-up-attacks-bloomberg-can…
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