“The CEO of the company that owns Wendy’s, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut donated $400,000 towards Trump’s re-election campaign.”
Social media posts
on social media. Claim dated 1 Jun 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
This assertion has been garbled. The big Trump donor is a regional franchisee of Wendy's, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut locations, not the CEO of the parent company of those three fast-food brands.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 1 June 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 June 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.fo/Ky0Ii
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