Opinion. This claim can't be proven true or false because it's about what Trump was thinking when he made the decision, and we can't read people's minds. While it's true that Trump sent troops to LA and that there's been talk about his Epstein connections, saying one was meant to distract from the other is just speculation. Just because two things happen around the same time doesn't mean one caused the other. Without being inside Trump's head or having access to his private conversations, this kind of claim about his motives is really just political opinion rather than something that can be fact-checked.
