An NPS communications official, whose name was redacted in the released files, told investigators that Reynolds called her after speaking with the president and said Trump wanted pictures from the inauguration. She said “she got the impression that President Trump wanted to see pictures that appeared to depict more spectators in the crowd”, and that the images released so far showed “a lot of empty areas”. The communications official said she “assumed” the photographs Trump was requesting “needed to be cropped”, but that Reynolds did not ask for this specifically. She then contacted the NPS photographer who had covered the event the day before. . .The NPS photographer, whose name was also redacted, told investigators he was contacted by an unidentified official who asked for “any photographs that showed the inauguration crowd sizes”. Having filed 25 photographs on inauguration day, he was asked to go back to his office and “edit a few more” for a second submission.
Moreover, if you compare the actual photos streamed live from the inauguration (I saved them at the time, from multiple sources, because I was engaged in a debate over this) with those the media released, it's clear the media was portraying photos from when the crowds were still arriving as if they represented full peak attendance. Trump quite rightly asked for accurate photos rather than the misleading ones the media was posting. This new nonsense is trying to make it sound like he was asking for photos to be edited, when there is no evidence he made such a request. This is a revival of the original psyop the media was pulling at the time of the inauguration.
I remember the media making a big deal of the pre-event crowd photos. Slimeballs lying from he starting gate.