Fact-check: “Donald Trump plans to sell protected land in Yosemite National Park.”
Verdict: Misleading (72% confidence)
Multiple independent outlets — NOTUS, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and CNBC — confirmed that the Trump administration has been working since spring 2025 on a transaction involving a roughly quarter-mile strip of Yosemite land for private developer Kingsbarn Realty Capital, and the Interior Department confirmed no final decision has been made. The claim mislabels the transaction in two material ways: the proposal is a land exchange (the developer would provide…
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