“The military came into the Oval Office, presented a plan. They said they knew where Kayla [Mueller] was. Baghdadi had held her for 18 months, abused her mercilessly before they killed her. But when Joe Biden was vice president, they hesitated for a month.”
Mike Pence
Vice President. in the vice presidential debate held at Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, Utah. Claim dated 7 Oct 2020.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
The most comprehensive report of the rescue effort says Obama approved the plan on spot in tje Situation Room
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In short
Mike Pence (Vice President) made this claim around 7 October 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 October 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Mike Pence has 46 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 25 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- usatoday.comhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/08/vice-presidential-debat…
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