Trump lies again!

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/28/politics/fact-check-minnesota-trump-speech-national-guard/index.html

Former President Donald Trump has revived his four-year-old false claim about how he and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz handled the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020.

Walz is among the Democrats whom sources say Vice President Kamala Harris is considering as a potential running mate. Trump, the Republican nominee, claimed during a Saturday campaign speech in Minnesota: "Every voter in Minnesota needs to know that when the violent mobs of anarchists and looters and Marxists came to burn down Minneapolis four years ago — remember me? I couldn't get your governor to act. He's supposed to call in the National Guard or the Army. And he didn't do it. I couldn't get your governor. So I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis." (Trump went on to criticize Harris for her own response to the unrest.)

CNN fact-checked this Trump story in July 2020. But he has repeated the tale on multiple subsequent occasions, including an abbreviated version during his June 2024 presidential debate with President Joe Biden.

Facts First: Trump's claims that he sent the National Guard to Minneapolis in 2020 and that Walz refused to do so are both wrong. Walz, not Trump, sent the National Guard to Minneapolis — and Walz first deployed the Guard more than seven hours before Trump publicly threatened to deploy the Guard himself.

The Minnesota National Guard, the entity that Walz deployed, is under the command of the governor, not the president. The president has the power to federalize states' Guard troops under certain circumstances, but Trump never did so during the 2020 unrest in Minnesota.

>  Trump makes false claims he knows are lies but his moron supporters don't fact check or care he lies...

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>  Trump makes false claims he knows are lies but his moron supporters don't fact check or care he lies...

Speaking of Minnesota, Trump claims the only way he can loose Minnesota is if they cheat. We've heard that bullshit out of Trump in 2016. 2020, and now in 2024. Dumbass doesn't know history. Minnesota has historically voted Democratic. The last time voting Republican was during Nixon's landslide victory in 1972.  During the Ronal Regan elections where he took all of the states, Minnesota was the only state that voted democratic.