On June 8, United States President Donald Trump praised the
California National Guard for its response to Los Angeles immigration enforcement protests.
“Great job by the National Guard in Los Angeles after two days of violence, clashes and unrest,” he wrote on Truth Social at 02:41 EDT, Eastern Daylight Time, (06:41 GMT) on Tuesday. He ended the post, “
Thank you to the National Guard for a job well done!”
But the National Guard had not yet arrived in Los Angeles, according to news reports and a spokesperson for the California governor.
Less than an hour after Trump’s Truth Social post, Bass said the National Guard was not on scene.
“Just to be clear, the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles,” [Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass] wrote on X.
Diana Crofts-Pelayo, a Newsom spokesperson, told PolitiFact the National Guard deployed on June 8 between 02:00 PDT, Pacific Daylight Time, and 04:00 PDT, which is 05:00 EDT to 07:00 EDT (09:00 GMT to 11:00 GMT).
The first media reports of California National Guard troops on the ground in Los Angeles were on June 8 at about 06:00 PDT, or about 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT).
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Al Jazeera, where the timeline is laid out to show what a big fat orange truth-twister Trump really is.