“The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has “been mostly empty” for decades.”
What PolitiFact found
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been entirely full as recently as the early 2010s. For almost a decade before Trump took office, the stockpile was generally 90% full or higher.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (former president) made this claim around 31 March 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 April 2022, 1 day 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/news-bhn3ukx7fz1797
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