TSA 'choke points' kept Trump supporters off the Mall (Only 12 TSA checkpoints admitting people)

American Thinker ^ | 24 Jan 17 | Ann Kane

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Not only did anti-Trump professional protesters disrupt and block inaugural attendees, but security checkpoints also kept untold numbers of Trump supporters from getting through to the National Mall to witness the president take the oath of office.

An online search for information about the security checkpoints revealed the following:

Six hundred fifty thousand general admission attendees were expected with 12 TSA checkpoints along the parade route and the mall. Two hundred fifty thousand who had tickets were processed through separate checkpoints. The TSA said they could screen 1,500 people per hour. So it would take 36 hours to process 18,000 per hour if crowds were evenly distributed throughout the day before the event.

Did the powers that be want to restrict access to Trump's inauguration so the media could claim that the crowds were much smaller than Obama's? And how in the world did 2 million people make it onto the mall back in 2008 if these same restrictions were in place?

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“Find their ammo cache and sell it to the general public.”

We already paid for it once; just pass it out to those who raise their hands.

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Especially that last one.

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We knew that Trump wanted us to be there so, even tho we couldn’t get tickets, we reserved seats on a bus of Republicans and got to DC ~9am and walked at least a mile to the 7th street gate. It was a fenced off area of jersey walls on the outside and a few metal separators in the middle. Everyone waited patiently, except for a few. Occasionally the lines moved up a bit. By 12:15, we still couldn’t see the screening area and knew that it would definitely be over soon so we went to lunch and had to be at the bus by 3:30. No parade either. It should not have worked out this way, especially for people who helped Donald get elected.

BTW we walked by CNN to get there and there were plenty of coptors overhead taping the folks in the side streets. It shouldn’t be a secret of how many people were there.