“Says he requested “10,000 National Guardsmen” for his Jan. 6 rally, but Nancy Pelosi “rejected it.”
What PolitiFact found
There is no evidence Trump made a request for 10,000 National Guard troops to be deployed for a rally he held that preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. There is no evidence that Pelosi denied such a request.
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In short
Donald Trump (Former president) made this claim around 1 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 March 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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
- video.foxnews.comhttps://video.foxnews.com/v/6236220709001#sp=show-clips
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