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Originally Posted by sarettah
He was clearly stating that there were more people there in D.C. watching "in person" then ever before and that was an obvious falsehood no matter how you try to spin it.
You are trying to turn apples into oranges and thats ok because I guess you are just using "alternative facts", ya know?
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Here is the quote from the transcript of the press briefing:
"We do know a few things, so let’s go through the facts. We know that from the platform where the President was sworn in, to 4th Street, it holds about 250,000 people. From 4th Street to the media tent is about another 220,000. And from the media tent to the Washington Monument, another 250,000 people. All of this space was full when the President took the Oath of Office. We know that 420,000 people used the D.C. Metro public transit yesterday, which actually compares to 317,000 that used it for President Obama’s last inaugural. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe. Even the New York Times printed a photograph showing a misrepresentation of the crowd in the original Tweet in their paper, which showed the full extent of the support, depth in crowd, and intensity that existed."
That's what Spicer is saying. Now where are your numbers coming from? MSNBC? CNN? Fox News? NBC? ABC? CBS?
Newsflash....they all hate Trump.
And as Spicer said: there are NO official numbers. But he did point out the amount of people that each section holds.
I watched Chris Wallace on Fox News today showing pictures to Pribus (Trump's chief of staff) of Obama giving his speech at his first inauguration with the place packed.
Then he showed Pribus a pic of Trumps crowd looking much smaller.
THEN Pribus pointed out that the Obama picture was taken during the time of his actual swearing in and speech.
The Trump crowd picture was taken long BEFORE the swearing in and speech when people were still filing in.
I'm telling you, you can't trust what the media tells you. They will give you half truths and then spin it to their own devices.
Don't forget that within the first hour of Trump being sworn in...the media put out a story that Trump had the MLK bust removed from the Oval Office.
It was a total lie...FAKE news designed to piss off black people.
When the Trump team showed reporters that it was still there...the reporter who originally "broke the story" claimed that "someone must have been standing in front of it in the photograph" he used to make up that story in the first place.
And then the reporter tweeted an apology to the Trump administration.
But that's the kind of shit the media does. They proclaim "facts" and report them like it's the gospel truth.
I'm just suggesting to you that the mainstream media is very, very biased and will try to do anything they can to push the agenda of their corporate owners.