Documents Show Trump Officials Agreed to Limit Rally Size, Contradicting the Candidate

[RandySF]

When Donald Trump puts his foot into something, he just can’t seem to get it out.

On Monday the GOP nominee continued his battle with America’s firefighters at a rally at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio, where he accused the local fire marshal and city officials of being part of a political conspiracy to prevent his supporters from attending the event. Trump had made similar accusations at an overcrowded rally in Colorado Springs on Friday.

“I just want to tell you we’ve had thousands of people outside, thousands. They were turned away—for political reasons—purely for political reasons,” Trump told reporters Monday just prior to the event. They said in this massive building you are not allowed to have any more than 1,000 people. And that is nonsense—we could have had 4, 5, 6,000 people. They have all been turned away. It is a disgrace,”

The problem with Trump’s charges? His own senior campaign staff officials were fully aware and had agreed in writing that the Trump event in Columbus was to be restricted to a maximum of 1,000 people, according to documents signed on Friday, July 29, between the Trump campaign and Columbus Convention Center for the Monday event, and obtained by Politico.
The documents, provided by Columbus Convention Center officials and the city fire department, show that senior Trump officials agreed to the terms four days prior to Monday’s event.


http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/donald-trump-2016-rally-size-214132#ixzz4GEhmaxR1
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[oswaldactedalone]

1. As Barney Fife would say

Trump has a lying compelsion.

[yeoman6987]

2. The problem is why he is getting these over booked numbers?

Are people really that interested in hearing him speak. Wait two or more hours to get in. He's always late. And then hear him say the same thing? I don't get it.

[Kingofalldems]

3. His fans are desperate it seems.

Talking about big turnouts and such.

He's dropping in the polls.

[politicaljunkie41910]

4. My guess is that the big crowds are gone, and he doesn't want to pay for big empty stadiums.

So he rents the small places and then tries to squeeze 3-4 times the legal limit inside. People are use to standing for hours at his rallys like the ones in those airplane hangars. He finds a room that legally holds 1000 and then doles out 3000-4000 tickets, not expecting to run into a fire inspector.

[tblue37]

5. His campaign distributed 10,000 tickets foir that rally! nt