“The Trump campaign asked that I release the list (of potential Supreme Court nominees) only after (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) passed away.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential nominee. a speech. Claim dated 20 Sep 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 20 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 September 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/8TKptzMX3fU?t=1161
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