“I requested … I definitely gave the number of 10,000 National Guardsmen, and [said] I think you should have 10,000 of the National Guard ready.”
What Washington Post found
Trump raised 10,000 troops in a White House meeting but never made a formal request, and the figure was never passed to Capitol Hill.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (Former president) made this claim around 28 February 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 March 2021, 2 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
- foxnews.comhttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-he-requested-10k-national-guard-troops-at-cap…
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