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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,807 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:51 AM Jun 2025

Fact check: Trump makes multiple false claims to the troops at Fort Bragg

President Donald Trump made a series of false claims to members of the military on Tuesday in a partisan and combative speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

Trump lied again about the 2020 election. He repeated a long-debunked story about a Minnesota National Guard deployment in 2020. He again distorted the history of his first administration’s fight against the ISIS terror group. He revived a fictional tale about immigration during former President Joe Biden’s administration. And he exaggerated the military’s recruiting challenges under Biden.

In addition, Trump made a series of vague assertions about the protests in Los Angeles for which he presented no evidence. Here is a fact check of some of his checkable false claims from the speech – plus a false claim he made in remarks about California at the White House earlier in the day.

The 2020 election: Trump repeated his long-debunked lie that the 2020 election “was rigged and stolen.” Trump legitimately lost a free and fair election to Biden.

The National Guard and Minneapolis: While bashing Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Trump revived a false story that CNN debunked nearly five years ago. Trump wrongly claimed that it was him, not Walz, who sent the National Guard to Minneapolis in 2020 amid the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-trump-makes-multiple-000709740.html

Trump lies, that's no surprise.

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Fact check: Trump makes multiple false claims to the troops at Fort Bragg (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2025 OP
A lot of the troops Woodwizard Jun 2025 #1
I am a veteran. Codifer Jun 2025 #2
This was a trump rally with troops clapping and nodding in agreement FloridaBlues Jun 2025 #3

Codifer

(1,149 posts)
2. I am a veteran.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:10 PM
Jun 2025

Not a hero by any stretch of imagination. Just one of millions who spent the Summer of Love in SE Asia.

That speech and spectacle was nauseating.

What the fuck happened to military discipline? To honor?

Who were those silly 13 year old shitheads behind the sick fuck who jeered at Joe Biden?

What fucking country am I in?

Shit.

FloridaBlues

(4,651 posts)
3. This was a trump rally with troops clapping and nodding in agreement
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:17 PM
Jun 2025

Hard to listen and watch this display.

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