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Trump said the top U.S. general was at the midterm convention. It’s not true.

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was at a 9/11 memorial event nearby.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Pentagon’s top general was at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, but a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday that is not true.

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, instead spoke a few miles away at a 9/11 anniversary event at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, according to video and his spokesman, Joe Holstead.

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