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CousinIT

(9,151 posts)
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:00 AM Sep 2018

Guardian Revealed: Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited

Exclusive: documents released to Guardian reveal government photographer cropped space ‘where crowd ended’

A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump’s inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following a personal intervention from the president, according to newly released documents.

The photographer cropped out empty space “where the crowd ended” for a new set of pictures requested by Trump on the first morning of his presidency, after he was angered by images showing his audience was smaller than Barack Obama’s in 2009.

The detail was revealed in investigative reports released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act by the inspector general of the US interior department. They shed new light on the first self-inflicted crisis of Trump’s presidency, when his White House falsely claimed he had attracted the biggest ever inauguration audience.

The records detail a scramble within the National Park Service (NPS) on 21 January 2017 after an early-morning phone call between Trump and the acting NPS director, Michael Reynolds. They also state that Sean Spicer, then White House press secretary, called NPS officials repeatedly that day in pursuit of the more flattering photographs.


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Guardian Revealed: Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened (Original Post) CousinIT Sep 2018 OP
This is a relatively trivial revelation in the grand scheme of things, but it proves once again Denzil_DC Sep 2018 #1
fuck him...Trump is easily the biggest loser in history...not even close Moostache Sep 2018 #2
We could see the trickery a year and a half ago FakeNoose Sep 2018 #3
What a vain and insecure little man Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2018 #4
What a snowflake he is. n/t Tarheel_Dem Sep 2018 #5

Denzil_DC

(7,187 posts)
1. This is a relatively trivial revelation in the grand scheme of things, but it proves once again
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:27 AM
Sep 2018

that Trump and those around him at the time didn't simply have a different perception of reality (e.g. "it seemed like a bigger crowd" ), but blatantly repeatedly lied about it vociferously after attempting a clumsy cover-up.

And this was at the very start of his term.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
2. fuck him...Trump is easily the biggest loser in history...not even close
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:28 AM
Sep 2018

His raging narcissism is pathetic and his insecurities so plain to see that he has long since gone from fool to caricature to pathetic buffoon.

FakeNoose

(32,328 posts)
3. We could see the trickery a year and a half ago
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:34 AM
Sep 2018

Why are they bothering with this now?

Nobody was fooled - then or now.

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