“Says President Barack Obama “spied on my campaign, and got caught!”
What PolitiFact found
A Justice Department review found the FBI had sufficient evidence to investigate Russian contacts with four Trump campaign associates. Multiple reports confirm that Obama did not initiate or attempt to influence the FBI.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 19 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 August 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “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.
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