Donald Trump’s latest boast about his crowd size fell apart in a hurry as he was fact-checked in real-time while he was still speaking.
“We do a lot of these beautiful rallies, and it’s so great,” the former president said in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. “We never have an empty seat, never have, look at it.”
Just one problem: While the sections closest to the stage were packed with MAGA faithful, there were plenty of empty seats toward the back of the venue ― and observers began sharing images of them on social media almost immediately.
An Associated Press photo also shows some of the empty seats…
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TIL that all of the arena is behind cameras, which is why there are empty sections around the entire arena.
I don’t think you watched the videos
Go rewatch the video, the rest of the stadium is pretty full, all the way to the nose-bleeds. I enjoy seeing his shrinking crowd sizes, and his fans walking out while he’s talking, but this article doesn’t have much meat on its sandwich.