The declare: Trump taken from Mar-a-Lago in an ambulance on Nov. 21
A Nov. 21 put up on X, previously Twitter (direct link, archive link) claims President-elect Donald Trump left his Florida house in an emergency car.
“Now trump in an ambulance out of mar a Lago with vans filled with secret service,” the textual content’s put up reads.
Comparable claims speculating about ambulances leaving Mar-a-Lago additionally unfold elsewhere on social media.
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Neither Trump nor anybody else at Mar-a-Lago who’s protected by the Secret Service left the property in an ambulance or skilled any points, a Secret Service spokesperson stated. The ambulances had been there as a part of Vice President-elect JD Vance’s motorcade, in response to media stories.
‘No points or issues’ for these underneath Secret Service safety
Social media posts circulated Nov. 21 referencing dispatches from pool reporters within the space that point out ambulances, a helicopter and more than 20 automobiles noticed at Mar-a-Lago.
However the declare within the X put up in query is fake. Trump was not taken from his home in an ambulance, Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi stated in an X put up.
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“We’re not monitoring any Secret Service-directed medical transports from Mar-a-Lago, and from our personnel on the bottom, there aren’t any points or issues with any Secret Service protectees on property,” Guglielmi stated within the put up.
At 78, Trump is the oldest person elected president, and when he’s inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025, he additionally will turn into the oldest individual to take workplace. He will probably be 5 months older than present President Joe Biden was at first of his time period in 2021.
However the ambulances at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 21 had nothing to do with Trump. They had been there as part of Vance’s motorcade, according to multiple posts from a reporter for The Impartial. It is common apply for ambulances to trail presidents and different officers in motorcades to provide immediate medical care in case of emergency.
Steven Cheung, employed as director of communications within the Trump White Home, was important of the stories concerning the ambulances, saying in an X post that one reporter “overreacted and set off the fireplace alarm for no motive.”
USA TODAY beforehand debunked false claims {that a} bomb was discovered close to the positioning of a Trump rally on Lengthy Island and that he posted to social media that his tried assassins have a document of “0-2.”
The social media consumer who shared the put up couldn’t be reached for remark.
Our fact-check sources
- Anthony Guglielmi, Nov. 21, X post
- Andrew Feinberg, Nov. 21, X post
- Andrew Feinberg, Nov. 21, X post
- Steven Cheung, Nov. 21, X post
- The Struggle Zone, July 2, 2020, The Fascinating Anatomy of the Presidential Motorcade
- How Stuff Works, accessed Nov. 21, The Anatomy of a U.S. Presidential Motorcade
- County Workplace (YouTube), Aug. 25, 2023, Why Does An Ambulance Follow The President? – CountyOffice.org
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