“Under the Obama/Biden administration, "we let — 18,000 people were — got clemency. He [President Donald Trump] got two or three.”
What FactCheck.org found
Obama pardoned or commuted the prison sentences of about 1,900 individuals. Trump issued 27 pardons and 11 commutations.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 5 October 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 October 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
- nbcumv.comhttps://www.nbcumv.com/mediavillage/interactive/2929fed4187b40648b79a9839e70e91fproduct16…
Links recorded by FactCheck.org. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.
Related checks
- PolitiFact: False“During the Obama/Biden administration “18,000 people got clemency.”