“Whistleblower rules were changed to allow a complaint alleging misconduct by the president to be forwarded to Congress based only on secondhand information.”
Donald Trump
President of the United States. Twitter. Claim dated 30 Sep 2019.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 30 September 2019. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 October 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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