“Says President Donald Trump has been "taking money Congress authorized to protect people facing disaster in order to indefinitely detain asylum seekers.”
Pete Buttigieg
Democratic presidential candidate. a tweet. Claim dated 28 Aug 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
In short
Pete Buttigieg (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 28 August 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 August 2019, 2 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Pete Buttigieg has 33 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 17 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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