“The Trump administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history.”
What PolitiFact found
Biden’s claim holds when calculating debt accrued during his first three years in office. But by the end of his four-year term, debt accumulation on his watch is projected to exceed the debt under Donald Trump.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 8 March 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 March 2024, 5 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/08/remarks-by-president…
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- PolitiFact: Mostly False“(Donald) Trump ran up more debt than any other president in American history.”