“This email reads as if it was cut-and-pasted from an official government briefing. An official government briefing that one would infer his father had received. And it reads as if it could easily have come from a classified briefing..”
Ted Cruz
Senator (R-Texas). remarks on “Verdict with Ted Cruz” podcast. Claim dated 30 Jan 2023.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios
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Ted Cruz (Senator (R-Texas)) made this claim around 30 January 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 February 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Ted Cruz has 24 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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- podcasts.apple.comhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/did-hunter-cut-paste-his-dads-classified-briefings/…
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