“The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!”
What PolitiFact found
Three days after Trump’s statement, the head of a firm helping do an audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County essentially walked back the database claim. There's no evidence any database was deleted illegally.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (Former president) made this claim around 15 May 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 May 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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
- donaldjtrump.comhttps://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-unite…
Links recorded by PolitiFact. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.