In recent public talks Donald Trump keeps sharing a made-up story about the summer-2020 protests. He tells people that he stopped protestors from pulling down D.C statues by making a new law with automatic 10-year prison time (which isnt true at all)
The real-deal is way different than what he says: theres been a long-standing federal rule about messing with statues; it just doesnt have any fixed prison terms. Law-enforcement experts point out that the existing legislation had been active way before the protests happened – no new laws were needed or signed
The former presidents story has another hole in it: people who were at those protests say his words didnt change their plans at all. Some protest organizers (who stayed anonymous) mentioned that their decision-making was based on local community feedback; not on any political statements
The whole situation shows how facts get mixed up with fiction: while protests did happen and some statues were at risk – the solution wasnt as simple as signing one paper. The existing laws were already there to deal with such cases; they just worked differently than whatʼs being claimed now