“The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.”
Tom Cotton
U.S Senator. Claim dated 16 Jun 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
The Obama administration in 2014 rejected Ukraine’s request for Javelins. The Trump and Biden administration provided that aid.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tom Cotton (U.S Senator) made this claim around 16 June 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 July 2024, 17 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Tom Cotton has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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