The White House has denied an Associated Press report Friday that President Donald Trump was considering mobilizing as many as 100,000 National Guard troops for immigration enforcement, but he wouldn’t be the first president to use the force this way.

The 11-page document obtained by AP outlines a plan to mobilize National Guard troops in the border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, as well as Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. The memo says that the governors of those states would have the option of participating in the operation, where National Guard troops would be authorized “to perform the functions of an immigration officer in relation to the investigation, apprehension and detention of aliens in the United States.”

The administration says it is LIES!!! FAKE NEWS!!!!

Homeland Security spokeswoman tells NBC News: “That AP story about the National Guard is incorrect. It’s not true.”

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters aboard Air Force One that the AP report was “100 percent not true,” according to a pool report distributed to reporters at 10:40 a.m.

“I wish you guys had asked before you tweeted,” Spicer told reporters.

An AP reporter responded that the news organization had sought comment “multiple times before publication,” according to the pool report.

At 10:43 a.m., Spicer himself tweeted that the AP story was “not true” and that “DHS confirms it is 100% false.” He responded similarly to another reporter asking about it two minutes later.

So is anyone surprised when it turns out to be true?

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President Donald Trump’s administration labeled The Associated Press’s reporting on a leak “100 percent false” on Friday morning, only to acknowledge less than an hour later that the story was based on a real document.

The administration’s response mimicked Trump’s remark a day earlier that even if leaks coming out of the government are “real,” the news is “fake.” And it also fit into what appears to be a pattern of ignoring reporters’ requests for comment, only to push back quickly after stories are published.