“I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders.”
What FactCheck.org found
Trump’s claim that he acted quickly is contradicted by news reports citing unnamed sources who say the president initially resisted efforts to bring in the National Guard at the outset of the Capitol riot.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 7 January 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 January 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “Disputed”.
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.
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