{"id":1208737,"date":"2022-01-11T16:19:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208737"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:19:44","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-genuine-trump-press-release-about-his-canceled-jan-6-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-genuine-trump-press-release-about-his-canceled-jan-6-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Genuine Trump Press Release About His Canceled Jan. 6 Press Conference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-a-genuine-trump-press-release-about-his-canceled-jan-6-press-conference%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208737&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/karen.b.daily\/posts\/10158274042026610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows a press release issued by former President Donald Trump explaining the reason behind the cancellation of his Jan. 6 press conference.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Trump putting out the press release. It has been fabricated.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Trump on Jan. 4 canceled the press conference he had scheduled to take place at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/05\/politics\/trump-cancels-press-conference-january-6\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CNN reported<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After the announcement, social media users began sharing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/karen.b.daily\/posts\/10158274042026610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">screenshot<\/a> of a purported Jan. 4 statement from Trump that<\/span>&nbsp;includes the \u201cSave America\u201d letterhead.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI did not cancel my GREAT event because of Sean Hannity\u2019s texts,\u201d the purported Trump statement reads, in part. \u201cI canceled because my son Donald paid me to rent the venue to plan his wedding. NO ONE can cancel better than me. Not the Radical Left, Liz \u2018Hack\u2019 Cheney, or Antifa.\u201d<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/07\/21\/fact-check-donald-trump-statement-tom-brady-shady\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Donald Trump Release a Statement Calling Tom Brady \u2018Shady\u2019?)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Check Your Fact searched Trump\u2019s&nbsp;<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">official website<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&nbsp;and his&nbsp;<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.45office.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">45office.com<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> website, and found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/news-ky75sastbf1364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one statement<\/a> from Jan. 4 regarding the cancellation of the press conference. The statement being shared on Facebook does not match what was said in Trump\u2019s real press release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of the total bias and dishonesty of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the January 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and instead will discuss many of those important topics at my rally on Saturday, January 15th, in Arizona,\u201d the official statement read, in part. \u201cIt will be a big crowd!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Using a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found the supposed press release being shared on Facebook has been fabricated and appears to have originated from a Twitter account belonging to comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamgabesanchez\/status\/1478546388485132288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabe Sanchez<\/a>,<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> who posted it Jan. 4. Sanchez\u2019s tweet garnered over 1,300 likes and nearly 500 retweets.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I guess we now know why Trump canceled himself, I mean, his January 6th conference.<\/p>\n<p>And unsurprisingly, he\u2019s blaming it on Don Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p61CnVsaNN\">pic.twitter.com\/p61CnVsaNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gabe Sanchez \uea00 (@iamgabesanchez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamgabesanchez\/status\/1478546388485132288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sanchez confirmed to Check Your Fact via Instagram direct message that he created the fake press release, stating \u201cHow can you not make fun of [Trump]?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen plenty of former President Trump\u2019s ridiculous press releases and 3 am rage tweets to know his style\u2014toss in some buzz words in all caps, give a lame nickname, blame someone for something pointless, and voila,\u201d Sanchez said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact reached out to a spokesperson for Trump and will update this article if a response is provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a press release issued by former President Donald Trump explaining the reason behind the cancellation of his Jan. 6 press conference.Verdict: False There &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}