“Says President Donald Trump walked across Lafayette Square to a church and held a Bible upside down.”
What PolitiFact found
Trump received backlash for his photo-op with a Bible in June, but one part of the criticism isn’t supported by still images and video footage: Trump held the Bible right-side up during the whole event.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 17 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 September 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/17/se.01.html
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