“Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.”
What PolitiFact found
If Trump is comparing his Jan. 6 speech on the Ellipse to King's 1963 March on Washington speech, then the latter was perhaps four times bigger.
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In short
Donald Trump (presidential candidate) made this claim around 8 August 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 August 2024, 1 day 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.
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