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6/9/22 news/analysis article (link): "GOP Doubles Down on Claim Pelosi Rejected National Guard Before Jan. 6 Riot"
Article excerpt:
"House Republican leaders on Thursday repeated debunked claims that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected an offer for the National Guard to be sent to the U.S. Capitol in the lead-up to the attacks of January 6, 2021."
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3/3/21 fact check 'tweet' (plus a comment). No affiliation. (Follow the embedded link in the original message for the full PolitiFact article:)
There's a better chance Trump requested a Quarter Pounder with Cheese (not that there's anything wrong with that) before he requested the National Guard.
— Chris Castagnola (@Topps72) March 3, 2021
Here's an excerpted summary of PoltiFact's findings, above:
"There is no evidence that Trump made a request for 10,000 National Guard troops to be deployed for a rally he held that preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.There is no evidence that Pelosi denied such a request."
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