“Taliban fighters "are tired of fighting" in Afghanistan.”
What FactCheck.org found
The Taliban never stopped fighting even after it signed an agreement with the U.S., and eventually took over Afghanistan less than a year later.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 18 September 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 August 2021, 333 days later. Its rating was “Events Proved Him Wrong”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- trumpwhitehouse.archives.govhttps://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-b…
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