“There’s noncompete clauses of people running the machines that lay down asphalt. If, in fact, you get offered a job and you know, you’re in Arkansas doing it, a specific example is you can’t take a job in west Texas to do it. ... … Or there were clauses in McDonald’s contracts: You can’t leave Burger King to go to McDonald’s.”
Joe Biden
President. during remarks at the signing of an executive order on promoting business competition. Claim dated 9 Jul 2021.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
The McDonalds-Burger King story is wrong and the asphalt story cannot be verified.
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In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 9 July 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 July 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
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/2021/07/09/remarks-by-president…
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