“I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general.”
What Washington Post found
The evidence shows there were no quiet protesters against removing the statue that weekend. That’s just a figment of the president’s imagination.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 26 April 2019. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 May 2020, 378 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
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-marine-one-depart…
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