Wow, and I thought the NY Post coverage was over the top when they were claiming 10,000 Maga supporters turned out in the Bronx to welcome their Mango Messiah at his rally in Cortona Park this evening. Then I glanced at the Fox News headline — 25,000 (according to a campaign aide)! Seriously?! Particularly when the permit was apparently for a maximum of 2300?
Fortunately, Raw Story has a much more “fair and balanced” assessment of the actual crowd size:
An NYPD officer shocked her partner Thursday night with information she'd received about former President Donald Trump's political rally in the Bronx...
The officer informed her partner of a report she received from the NYPD's aviation team, whose helicopters could be seen hovering over Trump's presidential rally.
The news: Aviation estimated about 3,500 people were at the MAGA rally.
Replied her partner, with surprise "That's it?"
The crowds who gathered in the park were not limited to Trump supporters but included large groups of protesters who expressed outrage at the former resident protesting in their borough.
How many people frequent Trump rallies is a point of contention often thrown into doubt.
The actual number of supporters who filed into a recent rally in New Jersey was initially reported to be up to 100,000 people, but a later investigation put the number in the thousands instead of the tens or hundreds of thousands.
And in an update on the rally itself, there was the usual steady stream of people leaving the rally early while tfg was still speaking:
Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell reported that the ex-president was "scheduled to appear shortly for his rally in South Bronx, NY — sound track is Macho Man and YMCA."
"Meanwhile maybe a thousand people haven’t made it past Secret Service screening, unclear whether Trump will wait for them to make it into the park where it’s being held," the reporter added.
An hour later, as Trump was still speaking when Lowell made a follow-up report:
"Trump’s rally had a max capacity limit, so maybe a thousand are still outside the Secret Service perimeter more than an hour later — though a steady stream of people is now entering… to replace the steady stream of people leaving," he said.
@JBellSATX replied, "Tiny crowd. People waking out while he’s talking. Hilarious."