An angry White House press secretary Sean Spicer lashed out at
journalists for ‘deliberately false reporting’ about Trump’s
inauguration numbers . He also lashed out at their editors’ decisions
to report unconfirmed crowd-counts from Friday’s inauguration.He said
‘This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period! – both in person and around the globe,’
He insisted that no official numbers are available, despite some news
outlets’ reporting that the total audience in Washington, D.C. was
approximately 250,000.
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‘No one had numbers’because the National Park Service, which controls
the National Mall, does not put any out.”From the platform where the
president was sworn in, to Fourth Street, holds about 250,000 people,’
he said.
‘From Fourth Street to the media tent is about another 220,000. And from
the media tent to the Washington monument, another 250,000 people.’All
of this space was full when the president took the oath of office,’
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On his part, visit to the Central Intelligence Agency.Trump also called
journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth,” and he
said that up to 1.5 million people had attended his inauguration, a
claim that photographs disproved.
