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Trump’s Inauguration Photos Were Cropped to Make Crowds Look Bigger, Report Says
Mother Jones ^ | 8sep18 | Edwin Rios

Posted on 09/08/2018 10:46:59 PM PDT by vannrox

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, cropped the official photographs to remove empty space where the crowds ended. The documents were produced as part of an Interior Department inspector general’s investigation, but the details about the edited photos were not included in the final report, released last June.

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To: vannrox

They should change the Masthead to “Mother F*****g Liars” ...

That would be the only “truth” to ever find it’s way into that commie rag


21 posted on 09/09/2018 1:22:44 AM PDT by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: vannrox

The real telling feature is what the grounds looked like AFTER the Obama and Trump inaugurations. After Obama’s the grounds were calf-deep in trash.


22 posted on 09/09/2018 1:28:34 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberals, piss off. That is all.)
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To: vannrox

Obongo appears at a campaign event in deep blue Kalifornia, and 750 people show up...

https://wtkr.com/2018/09/08/watch-obama-headlines-his-first-campaign-rally-of-2018-in-california/

Trump draws enough to fill every venue he appears in, with thousands waiting outside.


23 posted on 09/09/2018 1:52:08 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "I am Batman!")
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To: vannrox

Are you visiting from DU?


24 posted on 09/09/2018 1:58:45 AM PDT by Boomer
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To: vannrox

BS! I was at Trumps inaguration, it was absolutely packed.


25 posted on 09/09/2018 2:08:07 AM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: KavMan

The dem organizers smartened up, too, after the flaccid turnouts of Obama’s first rally and started supplying free concerts of A-list groups to draw crowds. Then, before the bands started, Barak walks out to say a few words and the photo ops were captured. Of course, on the evening news, viewers were not told of the music that drew the crowds.


26 posted on 09/09/2018 2:13:41 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: vannrox

CNN did release a gigapixel of the day.


27 posted on 09/09/2018 2:15:39 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: vannrox

BULL !!! The LIVE panning videos of the crowd showed the mall was overflowing.


28 posted on 09/09/2018 2:38:57 AM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: SubMareener

“Desperate”

...Agreed. Maybe they’re recycling all of their attacks from the beginning.


29 posted on 09/09/2018 2:40:12 AM PDT by albie
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To: albie

they are trying to suggest Trump wanted the pics doctored, yet nothing of the kind happened. also remember how gleeful FakeNewsMSM were when Nat Park Sce put out tweets hoping to damage the President. NYT’s Binyamin Appelbaum was in the thick of it:

The National Park Service’s Twitter Goes Rogue, Gets Banned From Tweeting
New York Mag - 21 Jan 2017
Tweet: Binyamin Appelbaum, NYT
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/national-park-service-tweets-about-trump-inauguration-crowd.html

A National Park Service Twitter Account Just Became a Folk Hero
Fortune-25 Jan. 2017
After re-posting Twitter updates that called into question the size of the crowds at Trump’s inauguration, the account’s activity was frozen.

National Park Service blames former staffer for climate change tweets
Opinion-The San Diego Union-Tribune-25 Jan. 2017


30 posted on 09/09/2018 2:59:13 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: vannrox

Trump supporters are responsible folks who have jobs, responsibilities and busy schedules, unlike the Democrat freeloaders who have all the time to show up at these mob events.


31 posted on 09/09/2018 3:17:52 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Violent and just obstructionist protesters trying to intimidate Trump supporters kept many from even trying to attend and blocked many of the security entrances. No Republican supporters did anything to intimidate Obama supporters in 2008 or 2012. The media conveniently never mentions this.


32 posted on 09/09/2018 3:31:31 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: vannrox

At almost every rally doesn’t he ask the media cameras to pan the crowd to show just how packed the event is, and they don’t?


33 posted on 09/09/2018 3:42:11 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: vannrox

Oh, no. Not this again. Yawn. Wasn’t it done to death, and proven untrue, January 2017?

Trump supporters will stand for hours in below-freezing temperatures, and over-100-degree temperatures, just to get in to a rally. But nobody will show up for the inauguration on a beautiful day? Riiight.


34 posted on 09/09/2018 3:46:47 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: vannrox

Wow - they must have run out of new material if they are recycling 1-1/2 year old crap that has already been run through the mill....


35 posted on 09/09/2018 4:08:02 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: vannrox

wrongk!!!No bill and Hillary did this


36 posted on 09/09/2018 4:11:39 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: MayflowerMadam
Notwithstanding different timing of photos to give impression of sparse attendance, I'm willing to concede that Obama probably had more attendees - the "historic" element to his election would further draw minions to the inauguration, and (as someone else said) it's a subway ride for many of them.

Personally, the issue of attendance at the inauguration is like going to Time Square on New Year's Eve...who'd want to stand for 12 hours without a bathroom in the cold for a brief moment of celebration? The ones who go are hard core and most normal people watch on TV.

This ginned-up attendance "controversy" was but the first of the statist attempts to discredit MAGA. My view is: who cares, outside of the DC hospitality industry? Deplorables know the attendance that matters was on Election Day especially in the polling booths in MI, WI, FL, and PA. They can't hide the fact that Freedom won, and statism lost when and where attendance mattered, because their candidate didn't (or couldn't) campaign. Even the Young Turks Election night meltdown acknowledged as much.

37 posted on 09/09/2018 4:18:14 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: vannrox

“I read Mother Jones carefully and look forward to every issue. After all, stories that started out in Mother Jones have wound up on 60 Minutes.” Mike Wallace in a subscription letter for this magazine.


38 posted on 09/09/2018 4:29:28 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: vannrox

Right...the press did that because they love him...

Oh, don’t forget, he’s not that popular either...haven’t you seen, he can’t get past 48%...

The real number is likely 60-65%


39 posted on 09/09/2018 4:47:40 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (17...#1776)
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To: vannrox

Trump’s crowds were smaller therefore he must be IMPEACHED.


40 posted on 09/09/2018 5:10:33 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (b)
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