“Obama’s defence chief said Biden has been wrong on every major national-security decision over the past four decades

 This statement below from Trump’s speech at the 2020 RNC is from a somewhat ridiculous NYT “fact-checking” operation that found Trump statements the Dems didn’t like to be “False” and the ones they did like to be “True”. The one below is an outlier, in that it’s rated “True” (“mostly”), about something that is very much not liked by the Dems. 

Namely that Joe Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major national-security decision over the past four decades”. Wow!

“Barack Obama’s own secretary of defense said Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every major national-security decision over the past four decades.”

— Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas

This is mostly true.

Mr. Cotton is repeating a charge that Vice President Mike Pence made last night, regarding the 2014 book, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War,” by the former Pentagon chief and C.I.A. director Robert M. Gates.

In his memoir, Mr. Gates offered a scathing assessment of how the Obama administration handled the war in Afghanistan. Of Mr. Biden in particular, Mr. Gates said, “I think he’s been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” But Mr. Cotton did not mention what Mr. Gates had written immediately before his criticism of Mr. Biden. “He’s a man of integrity, incapable of hiding what he really thinks, and one of those rare people you know you could turn to for help in a personal crisis,” Mr. Gates wrote of the then-vice president. [Link]