“Well, look, the idea that I’m going to say, which I would never do, that if an unaccompanied child ends up at the border, we’re just going to let them starve to death and stay on the other side — no previous administration did that either, except Trump.”
Joe Biden
President. at a news conference at the White House. Claim dated 25 Mar 2021.
Washington Post rated thisNo evidence
What Washington Post found
Many reports of malnutrition but none of death by starvation.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 25 March 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 March 2021. Its rating was “No evidence”.
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/2021/03/25/remarks-by-president…
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