“Then-Vice President Mike Pence "seized power" from President Donald Trump and undertook "a coup" when he called on federal agencies to stop the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.”
Mark Finchem
candidate for Arizona secretary of state. Claim dated 28 Jul 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
None of Pence’s exchanges with federal officials on Jan. 6 impinged on or usurped Trump’s role as president.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mark Finchem (candidate for Arizona secretary of state) made this claim around 28 July 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 September 2022, 53 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Mark Finchem has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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