Former President Donald Trump is known to brag about and sometimes inflate the number of people in the crowd at his rallies. News photos show big crowds at recent-days ralliesin Arizona and Nevada.<\/p>\n
But two recent Facebook posts swing in the opposite direction, claiming that his supporters abandoned him at an event.<\/p>\n
\"Trump rally just got shut down after no one shows up,\" read one Facebook post from Oct. 8.<\/p>\n
The post was flagged as part of Facebooks efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook.)<\/p>\n
A video in the post reveals that the event in question was not a rally featuring Donald Trump, but one thrown by his supporters.<\/p>\n
The video shows an Oct. 7 Daily Beast story about a \"pro-Trump rally\" on the Capitol grounds that day attended by \"a mere 27 individuals.\" The event nevertheless went on, according to the story.<\/p>\n
Looking for reports that recent rallies that Trump appeared at were shut down, we found only old news coverage.A 2016 Politico story, for example, told the story of a planned Chicago rally that was called off amid safety concerns as protesters gathered outside.<\/p>\n
We rate the claim that Trumps rally was recently shut down False.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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