“What people don’t know is that 70 percent of the increase in inflation was the consequence of Putin’s price hike because of the impact on oil prices. Seventy percent.”
Joe Biden
President. remarks at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, N.C.. Claim dated 14 Apr 2022.
Washington Post rated thisNeeds context
What Washington Post found
Biden is referring to the impact of energy on monthly inflation
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In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 14 April 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 April 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
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
- foxbusiness.comhttps://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-blames-putin-for-70-of-the-increase-in-inflati…
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