A Washington Post report claiming President Donald Trump is ramping up transfers to Guantanamo Bay prison is “fake news,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“This story is fake news. Not happening,” Leavitt said in a post on X.

The Post report, published Wednesday, said the Trump administration was preparing to send thousands of foreigners to the detention facility, including people from France, Britain, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, Haiti, and Italy.

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