“If I didn’t INSIST on having the National Guard activate and go into Kenosha, Wisconsin, there would be no Kenosha right now.”
What PolitiFact found
This is wrong on every level, including the most basic one: None of the troops in WI were dispatched or aided by Trump. It's a state process.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 31 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 September 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
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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