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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'WE ARE NOT ABLAZE,' Portland fire department says after Trump falsely claims 'entire city on fire'
Fact check: 'WE ARE NOT ABLAZE,' Portland fire department says after Trump falsely claims 'entire city' is on firehttps://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/politics/fact-check-portland-ablaze-trump-fire-department/index.html
Washington (CNN)Portland's fire department has a message for President Donald Trump: the whole city is not on fire.
At a Monday news conference, Trump claimed that protests in Portland have been so damaging that "the entire city is ablaze all the time."
Facts First: This is not even close to true.
"WE ARE NOT ABLAZE IN PORTLAND," Lt. Rich Chatman, a spokesman for Portland Fire & Rescue, said in a text message to CNN on Monday night. "There is a very isolated pocket of demonstrations that have involved fire, none of which has been substantial enough to need more than 1 fire
engine."
There have been protests in Portland every night since late May, when they broke out following the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police. Some of them have featured vandalism and violence.
These problems have largely been confined to a small area in the immediate vicinity of a federal courthouse. Most Portland residents have continued to go about their lives in peace even as some conservative media outlets have depicted large swaths of the city as under siege.
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'WE ARE NOT ABLAZE,' Portland fire department says after Trump falsely claims 'entire city on fire' (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
OP
Laelth
(32,017 posts)1. k&r for the truth. n/t
-Laelth
Blue Owl
(50,598 posts)2. Donald Trump, the president who cried "wolf"
n/t
Bayard
(22,247 posts)3. The problem is getting the truth out there,
After he spews the lies in his daily TV campaign appearance.
lpbk2713
(42,776 posts)4. Trump is putting out Fake News.
If his lips are moving he's bound to be lying.
Yavin4
(35,455 posts)5. Then why is their basketball team called.....Trailblazers!!!!!
Doesn't that name mean that they're blazing trails?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,498 posts)7. K&R