Fact check: Minnesota governor, not Trump, called out the National Guard
I saw a clip of trump LYING and bragging on Fox @SeanHannity show---call in--that he stopped the violence immediately once the guard came in................ Trump has told this LIE over and over and each time it gets bigger and bigger like a fish tale.
It is part of his LAW AND ORDER CAMPAIGN
[Fact check: Minnesota governor, not Trump, called out the National Guard
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/fact-check-trump-walz-minnesota-national-guard/index.html
By Daniel Dale, CNN Updated 8:45 AM ET, Wed July 1, 2020
Washington (CNN)Campaigning as the candidate of "law and order," President Donald Trump keeps claiming that he is the one who got the National Guard deployed to deal with rioting in Minnesota.
According to Trump and his team, Trump made the Guard deployment happen over the objections of the state's Democratic leaders.
"I brought it out five days after they started. They wouldn't use the National Guard. I brought the National Guard to -- I told them, I said, 'You got to get the National Guard.' We got them in. Everything stopped in Minneapolis. It was really an amazing thing, actually, to see, and they had no problems after we called out the Guard," Trump said in an interview with Nexstar on June 17.
"Forced Democrat run Minnesota to bring in the National Guard & end rioting & looting after seeing the destruction & crime in Minneapolis," he tweeted on June 19.
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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany made a similar claim at her official briefing on Monday, casting specific blame upon Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
"Minnesota's Democrat governor failed to urgently deploy the National Guard -- it took President Trump for that to eventually happen; his suggestion -- and the ultimate descendance into chaos there in Minneapolis," McEnany said.
Facts First: Walz, not Trump, was the one who deployed the Minnesota National Guard; Walz first activated the Guard on May 28, more than seven hours before Trump publicly threatened to deploy the Guard himself. Walz's office says the governor activated the Guard in response to requests from officials in Minneapolis and St. Paul -- cities also run by Democrats. And it's not true that there were "five days" of unrest before Walz called out the Guard; violent protests began two days prior to Walz's decision.
It is theoretically possible that pressure from Trump contributed to a Walz decision to activate the entire Minnesota National Guard on May 30, two days after his initial activation of a smaller number of Guard troops. But no evidence has emerged to prove that was the case, and Walz's office says Trump had nothing to do with either of the governor's decisions. ...................
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