Trump's nonsence claim about Liz Cheney It may be a new year, but once again we find ourselves litigating Donald Trump's false claim that he had requested 10,000 troops to protect the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It's an invented assertion, twisting an offhand comment into a presidential order. A Colorado judge recently considered testimony on this point and dismissed a Trump aide's account as "incredible." In a social media post on New Year's Day, Trump elevated the falsehood with the added bogus claim that former congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair of the select committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol, destroyed documents that would exonerate him. To protect sensitive witnesses, some documents did not make it into the committee archives. But the special counsel who is prosecuting Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election — although not for the Capitol insurrection itself — says the withheld materials have already been provided to Trump as part of discovery in the case. Click the link to read the full fact check — though you can probably guess the Pinocchio rating. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. The DeSantis-Haley China feud amps up with more falsehoods In the battle between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley to emerge as the main Republican alternative to Trump, both sides have lobbed hyperbolic and false statements about their rival's record on China. A super PAC that backs Haley this week launched a new ad that appears designed to counter specific attacks made by the DeSantis campaign, using examples that mirror those used against Haley. DeSantis has charged that Haley actively recruited Chinese companies to South Carolina when she was governor. A super PAC associated with DeSantis also has run ads claiming that Haley made a serious national security blunder when as governor she welcomed a Chinese fiberglass factory to her state. So this ad tries to turn the tables — claiming that DeSantis said China was "Florida's most important trading partner" and that he allowed a Chinese company to expand near a military base. Neither claim is true. Click the link to read the full fact check. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. We're also on TikTok. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. About the cats: It's a Friday and sometimes our fact checks deal with heavy subjects. So we hope to bring a smile to your face. Scroll down to read more election-related fact checks | 
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