CLAIM: Violence only broke out in Los Angeles after President Donald Trump federalized the California National Guard on Saturday, June 7.
VERDICT: FALSE. Riots began Friday, June 6, prompting Trump to act.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) delivered a speech Tuesday evening, as downtown Los Angeles prepared for curfew, in which he attacked President Trump, blaming him for ongoing riots and accusing him of being a threat to democracy.
Newsom’s audio failed for several minutes — a fact whose symbolic significance did not escape online critics — but when he re-launched his speech, he claimed that riots had only started on Saturday night.
In fact, riots (a term Newsom never used) started on Friday, before Trump had done anything.
Here is Newsom’s description of the
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