As Los Angeles braced for the arrival of new federal troops, Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated a slew of falsehoods and misleading statements about the tensions in the US’s second-largest city.
In an address to troops at the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina, Trump spread conspiracy theories, maligned California’s Democratic leaders and misleadingly portrayed protesters as part of a “foreign invasion”.
The comments came as the city of angels prepared for the arrival of hundreds of new troops tasked with protecting immigration enforcement officials, after protests against immigration raids kicked off on Friday.
The initial deployment of 300 national guard troops, federalized by Trump over the objections of California leaders, is expected to quickly expand to 4,000. An additional 700 marines began arriving on Tuesday.
Here are some of Trump’s claims, fact-checked.
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