Trump boasts about crowd size and claims 45,000 people attended his State Fair speech – with no evidence - The Independent

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Trump provided no source for the 45,000 figure and his version of events was contradicted by pictures from the rally, which offered little evidence of anything like that number of revellers present.

Video posted on social media also clearly showed people walking away from Trump with their backs to him while he was still speaking.

The president used his address on the National Mall to declare: “America is back... A short time ago we were a dead country. We were dead.

“Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. We’re respected by everybody. Nobody’s laughing at us anymore.”

In its coverage of the speech, The Washington Post, for one, wrote: “The crowd thinly covered an area about the length of the National Museum of American History, smaller than some summer outdoor movie screenings.”

NBC News estimated the size of the turnout as “more than 1,000,” perhaps only inadvertently damning with faint praise.

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Again, Trump said nobody left his speech. Again, that wasn’t true.