“When large numbers of people in Butler (Pa.) started killing themselves with narcotics, no one in Washington or New York or Los Angeles said a word about it.”
Tucker Carlson
Fox News host. In a broadcast on Fox News. Claim dated 2 Nov 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
Carlson is wrong that people were ignored or mocked, but the government was slow to spend money.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) made this claim around 2 November 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 November 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/TuckerCarlsonTonight/videos/vb.368557930146199/401726080862263/?…
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