“The New York Times is running a story that I have traveled with a 17-year-old woman, and that is verifiably false. People can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case.”
What Washington Post found
As a House member, Gaetz is not required to file disclosures concerning his private life and expenses. So his records show nothing.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Matt Gaetz (Member of Congress (R-Fla.)) made this claim around 30 March 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 April 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
Matt Gaetz has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- video.foxnews.comhttps://video.foxnews.com/v/6245589617001#sp=show-clips
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