“You remember they [Iran] fired. They hit one of our drones and I hit them. …. They called us to tell us that we’re going to hit back. Here’s the target, but we’re not going to hit the target. We’re going to just miss it.”
Donald Trump
former U.S. president. in an interview with Univision. Claim dated 10 Nov 2023.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
Virtually none of this happened as he claimed.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (former U.S. president) made this claim around 10 November 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 November 2023, 5 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nID5J8dmRL4
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