Fact-check: Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg contained lies and conspiracy theories about LA

The US president reiterated falsehoods and misleading statements to troops at the North Carolina military base

As Los Angeles braced for the arrival of new federal troops, Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated a slew of falsehoods and misleading statements about the tensions in the US's second-largest city.

In an address to troops at the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina, Trump spread conspiracy theories, maligned California's Democratic leaders and misleadingly portrayed protesters as part of a foreign invasion".