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Buttigieg alleged "flights apparently being routed through Scotland just so people can stay at (Trump's) hotels." Current evidence does not prove that flights were routed to Scotland for this reason. (Military is investigating, so we may well learn more.) cnn.com/2019/09/12/pol…
We are *not* calling Buttigieg false; we're providing information about what the current evidence shows and doesn't, and explicitly noting he could conceivably be proven right. Not every fact check declares that someone is a big liar.
Think there's sometimes a perception gap on what the existence of a fact-check means. Some are a kind of accountability-punishment for a lie. Others, though, are more informational -- "Let's lay out what is known and not, what is definite/what is speculative/what the context is."
