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  • Trump’s Inauguration Photos Were Cropped to Make Crowds Look Bigger, Report Says

    09/08/2018 10:46:59 PM PDT · by vannrox · 59 replies
    Mother Jones ^ | 8sep18 | Edwin Rios
    Workers were given the impression the president wanted “pictures that appeared to depict more spectators.” Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump boasted about the size of the crowds in attendance, and then-press secretary Sean Spicer, in his first press conference, sided with his boss and insisted that it had been “the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period.” This wasn’t true, of course, but a government photographer did his best to make it seem like it was. Newly released documents obtained by the Guardian show that a National Park Service photographer, following a request from the White House,...
  • Shooting Down Misleading Myth About Anti-Gun Rally Crowd Sizes

    03/26/2018 10:30:23 AM PDT · by Sean_Anthony · 11 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 03/26/18 | Ron A.Y. Rich
    It's Like Comparing Bullets and Blanks Comparing the crowd size of the anti-gun rally at Washington D.C. with the crowd size at President Trump’s inauguration is like comparing apples and oranges, or perhaps more apropos, bullets and blanks. It is even more outrageous than the misleading comparisons between the inaugurations of President Obama and Trump that I wrote about in the Canada Free Press, “Response to Claim That More Women Protested [at the women’s rally the day after President Trump’s inauguration] Than People Attended the Inauguration,” Jan. 23, 2017 (which includes a large section contrasting the Obama and Trump inauguration...