“Yesterday, President Trump said he was invoking the Defense Production Act, then turned around and said he wasn't planning to use it.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential candidate. a tweet. Claim dated 19 Mar 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisReality is complex
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 19 March 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 March 2020, 4 days later. Its rating was “Reality is complex”.
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.
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