In his first television appearance since the announcement of Minnesota
Governor Tim Waltz as Vice President Kamala Harris running mate,
former President Donald Trump made a false claim that he
saved walks from an angry group with BLM protesters.
This led to a severe backlash from critics who called
the ex press out for blatantly lying about calling the
National Guard during the riots.
During a phone interview on Fox and Friends,
Trump stated that Waltz called him during the 2020 riots
to seek assistance in dealing with protesters at his governor's
mansion.
Trump claimed that he intervened by putting out a message
that Waltz was.
Good person leading the protesters to disperse peacefully.
Critics of the former president flooded X,
formerly known as Twitter, where they called out Trump for
blatantly lying about how everything went down.
1 user shared the story in a post that read
the ego of this man.
Trump was one of the major reasons the BLM protest
even happened and now he's taking credit for another man's
work at de escalating the situation.
F him. Another user commented.
The man can't go a single interview without writing his
own fanfic about himself as president.
A third person referred to Trump as a pathological liar.
I helped him very much during the riots because his
house was surrounded by angry people that were waving an
American flag,
Trump claimed. He called me and he was very concerned,
Very, very concerned that it was going to get out
of control.
They only had one guard.
I guess it was at the mansion or had his
house in some form.
He called me and I said,
what do you want me to do about it?
I was in the White House.
He said if you would put out the word that
I'm a good person,
and I did. I put out the word.
I said he's a good person,
I hope everything's good, he continued.
Everybody put down their flags and took their flags with
them.
They took the American flags and their McGowan flags and
they left.
It was thousands of people.
He went on to claim that Waltz called him back
and thanked him for his help.
CNN fact checked Trump's statement pointing out that the George
Floyd protesters in 2020 did not have American flags and
their McGowan flags as Trump claimed,
and that it was actually Waltz himself who called in
the National Guard to protect the Minneapolis metropolitan.
Area in 2020.