Post by the Scribe on Nov 16, 2020 6:39:09 GMT
Kayleigh McEnany Breaks White House Whopper Record With MAGA Crowd Tally
www.yahoo.com/huffpost/kayleigh-mcenany-trump-maga-march-crowd-085632021.html
Mary Papenfuss
HuffPostSun, November 15, 2020, 1:56 AM MST
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany spectacularly broke the White House fib meter in an administration with an astounding reputation for lies. She gushed Saturday that the “Million MAGA March” in Washington to protest President Donald Trump’s election loss had more than a million marchers.
She was only off by some 980,000 people — and that’s being generous. Most estimates in the media were “thousands.” The Washington Post characterized McEnany’s tweet as “ludicrous.”
The National Park Service issued a permit to march organizers for 10,000 people in Freedom Plaza, where participants gathered, DCist reported. The plaza’s maximum capacity is 13,900.
Trump’s own estimate of the crowd size was initially “hundreds of thousands.” He later referred in a tweet to “tens of thousands.”
Twitter critics’ collective jaw dropped. They wondered if the same math was being used to figure Trump’s imagined votes.
www.yahoo.com/huffpost/kayleigh-mcenany-trump-maga-march-crowd-085632021.html
Mary Papenfuss
HuffPostSun, November 15, 2020, 1:56 AM MST
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany spectacularly broke the White House fib meter in an administration with an astounding reputation for lies. She gushed Saturday that the “Million MAGA March” in Washington to protest President Donald Trump’s election loss had more than a million marchers.
She was only off by some 980,000 people — and that’s being generous. Most estimates in the media were “thousands.” The Washington Post characterized McEnany’s tweet as “ludicrous.”
The National Park Service issued a permit to march organizers for 10,000 people in Freedom Plaza, where participants gathered, DCist reported. The plaza’s maximum capacity is 13,900.
Trump’s own estimate of the crowd size was initially “hundreds of thousands.” He later referred in a tweet to “tens of thousands.”
Twitter critics’ collective jaw dropped. They wondered if the same math was being used to figure Trump’s imagined votes.