“The facts are clear here. This is unbelievable. You have the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice advocating for an insurrection, advocating for overturning a legal election to the sitting president’s chief of staff.”
Amy Klobuchar
Senator (D-Minn.). in an interview on ABC's "This Week". Claim dated 27 Mar 2022.
Washington Post rated thisTwo Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
Thomas criticized the violence attack on the Capitol even as she sought to overturn the election results.
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In short
Amy Klobuchar (Senator (D-Minn.)) made this claim around 27 March 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 April 2022, 9 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
Amy Klobuchar has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-27-22-sen-amy-klobuchar-gen/story?id=8369…
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