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Trump Distorts Ossoff’s Record

On the morning of the special House election in Georgia, President Donald Trump fired off two tweets that were critical of Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff. Trump claimed Ossoff “will raise your taxes,” but we could find no evidence of Ossoff proposing any broad-based tax increases, such as an income tax hike.

We don’t typically fact-check claims on Election Day, but in this case Trump sent out the tweets on the morning of the April 18 election.

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