Katy Tur (on HARDBALL): Trump lying about his rally crowds

[brooklynite]

Today in NH, said 3,000 waiting outside (nobody waiting outside, room wasn't full to capacity)

Thursday.

[dhol82]

1. Is anybody surprised by this?

[joshdawg]

33. For drumpf, lying is as normal as breathing.

[Enoki33]

34. Just surprised that he constantly gots away with stuff like this.

[dhol82]

38. Hopefully, that will soon be changing.

[ffr]

2. Be wary of what you say about our own kim Jong Un

The crowds were tremendous. Big tremendous crowds of very excited people and tens of thousands of cheering supporters, awesome enthusiastic cheering crowds outside. Trust me, they were there.

[MoonRiver]

3. That was nice!

[Madam45for2923]

4. Hahahaha! Thanks Katy Tur!

What a freaking liar Trump is! Let's just not believe anything he says or tweets or comes out of his whatever! Is all shit!

[spiderpig]

5. Katy Tur for Empress!

[Wounded Bear]

6. You can tell from her tone and her reporting...

that she is getting sick of following that asshole around and putting up with all the cretins in his crowds.

I feel for her. I've come to like her, though. I admire her persistance to stick with it.

[helpisontheway]

7. She deserves a bonus! Nt

[rufus dog]

10. I hope they have offered to rotate her out

She is likely getting all kinds of heat. If it is her choice to stay fine, but they should offer to rotate someone else in for the last month.

[Hekate]

24. If I understand correctly they didn't think DTs was going to last so they put the new girl on...

Then he just kept going and going and became the presidential nominee.

It's been tough. She's been called out by Trump in full rant mode while she was standing in his screaming crowds. After one intense episode the Secret Service escorted her to her car as a safety precaution.

Katy has turned out to be pretty tough herself. And if I understand things correctly, sticking with this assignment (which after all they have not taken away from her) is going to be a helluva good career move.

I sure hope she writes a book.

[rufus dog]

37. Yup!

She was raw as hell when she started, neat to see her growth over the year.

He calls her " Little Katy" an obvious attempt to intimidate her. I hope she sticks it out, writes a book, and makes a boat load of money, because she should be getting combat pay.

[Eugene]

8. So much for the blame-the-fire-marshal schtick.

Katy and crew deserve hazardous duty pay for this assignment.

[brooklynite]

13. If you were a serious reporter, would you give this gig up?

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. She's getting famous behind it, that's for sure

Future White House correspondent during the Clinton admin?

[Hekate]

25. She's definitely going places after this trial by fire.

[anneboleyn]

44. He says this ALL THE TIME, and he never gets called on it. I am happy to hear this!

[wishstar]

9. The only crowds outside at his rallies are anti-Trump protestors

At his events there are plenty of empty seats inside but he knows the the local news shows will cover him making those claims about the fire marshals not able to let everyone in.

His bullshit backfired in my city though when our local ABC affiliate switched from his claim of thousands waiting to get in outside to their reporter outside with the throngs of protestors including one with a 'Fuck Trump" sign

[ColemanMaskell]

28. that's funny

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Trump Pence = Smoke and Mirrors

[Plucketeer]

22. Trump.....

" I shit big gold coins, folks - believe me, believe me - it's true. And they're beautiful coins too - the prettiest really. And HUGE too! So huge that they don't fit thru the vault doors at the bank! I'll just eat a bunch of my steaks and BINGO! No more national debt! No, really - I'm tellin' ya. Yur gonna love it."

[C_U_L8R]

12. He lies at every rally

with the same stupid lie
and what's even more pathetic...
his dumbshit supporters believe him !!!

---face palm---

[kimbutgar]

15. I just hope Katy stays safe.

[brush]

16. We learned in the primaries that the size of rally crowds does not translate necessarily . . .

to votes. Ask the Sanders campaign.

[calimary]

17. She is doing a damn fine job!

I am more and more impressed with her week by week.

She was thrown into the pool without water wings. On a gig everybody thought would be over in six weeks.

Now she's a freakin' star!

I WAS joking earlier today that the happiest guy in the whole world is Chris Matthews' agent. Because ol' Tweety just may have ended Gary Johnson's career. And only weeks after getting Donald Trump to blurt out that women who get an abortion should be punished.

But now I think it's gotta be whoever Katy Tur's agent is. By now, I'm sure she has one. But if she doesn't, she'll easily be able to convince the best agents in the business to want to represent her!

[Grammy23]

18. It's about time someone came clean on tRump's claims about crowd size.

Last year he came to a rally in Mobile, AL....a town about 60 miles west of where I live. People from all over the region came to see him, but not nearly in the numbers he reported. He claimed there were 35,000 people when real estimates were half that. And it has been that way ever since. There are the tRump numbers. Then there is reality. He is such a liar. I will be so glad when this whole thing is all over and he can slink back to his cave.

[HeartlandDem]

19. I think they should rotate them too...

I appreciate Katy's work so much. That said, I worry for her... but, I'm A grandma, that's my job

[SleeplessinSoCal]

20. Status Quo for the Liar.

He exaggerated by 4,000 when he did a rally across the street from us. Just caused a riot, lied, and moved on. He threatened to return.

[Blue Idaho]

21. I wish reporters did this more often.

The campaigns know how to herd the "crowd" into a corner of a bigger space to create the illusion of a bigger audience. I wish the camera operator would step back and show a conver shot of the whole room. We all know Don the Con is a polished liar who finds it easy to lie his ass off. The M$M owes us an honest view of room occupancy.

[left-of-center2012]

23. Many times, over many months ...

Trump has told his rallies that there were 15,000 or 20,000 people outside trying to get in.
Delusional?

[oasis]

26. I knew there could only be so many deplorables crawling about.

[Maru Kitteh]

27. It's about time the media starts calling him on this.

[Wounded Bear]

29. Just pan the camera...

show the actual crowd.

[Maru Kitteh]

30. I guess they could set up a second camera to show the empty outside

and employ some kind of crowd-counting algorithm for every time he lies about the crowd size in his rooms?

Do you think that would matter to his deplorables? I don't.

I'm just glad to see any media calling that 70yr old orange fucking child on his bullshit.

[Justice]

31. Bedford NH (where rally was) voted for Romney by 62% so strong GOP town

but wealthy town relative to other parts of NH. Will be interesting to see if vote for Trump by that margin.

[WiffenPoof]

32. I have a crush on...

...Katy Tur

[BSdetect]

35. DRUMPH CAN COUNT

just not accurately

he does not see actual sizes as we do

explains his claim re hands

he is a swirling vortex of contradictions

[getagrip_already]

36. on the other hand....

my wife and a friend drove up to try to see bernie and hillary in new hampshire the other day. She stood in line for 2 hours and said she and a couple of thousand other people were turned away. She said more people got turned away than were allowed in by fire marshall.

[LeftRant]

39. He's all presentation/fakery. I struggle to think how his supporters will stay supporters when he

behaves like that as president (should he win). I know they just want to beat HRC, but you can only ignore reality for so long when everyone around you is like, "Uhh yeah, that sky is actually blue."

[displacedtexan]

40. I saw that report. Lying is his specialty.

Of course, he's lying about his crowds. Sadly, his followers don't care.

[rivegauche]

41. When does he not lie? Seriously.

At this point, I think he is either a sociopath or a pathological liar. When he is called on an outright lie he always tries to deflect with some random idiocy. And thinks it doesn't matter if he lies. He seems totally incapable of telling the truth about anything.

[rurallib]

42. When I heard her talking about this it made me think of Dire Staits "Guitar Man"

"Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice he's just got to find
Another place to play"

The party's over and the crowd is leaving. Maybe he's flimmed his last flam.

[arthritisR_US]

43. Say it isn't so, tRump lied?

Hint: if his lips are moving, he's lying.