“You have to have congressional authority" to close Guantanamo Bay prison.”
Joe Biden
former Vice President. Claim dated 19 Dec 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
In short
Joe Biden (former Vice President) made this claim around 19 December 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 December 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
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
- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/20/transcript-december-democratic-debate/
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