“Says the Potomac River "has gotten dirtier and dirtier and dirtier and dirtier. I go down there and that litter is left almost exclusively by immigrants.”
Tucker Carlson
Fox News talk show host. in an interview with the Atlantic. Claim dated 15 Dec 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News talk show host) made this claim around 15 December 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 December 2019, 3 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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