Donald Trump’s latest boast about his crowd size fell apart in a hurry as he was fact-checked in real-time while he was still speaking.

“We do a lot of these beautiful rallies, and it’s so great,” the former president said in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. “We never have an empty seat, never have, look at it.”

Just one problem: While the sections closest to the stage were packed with MAGA faithful, there were plenty of empty seats toward the back of the venue ― and observers began sharing images of them on social media almost immediately.

An Associated Press photo also shows some of the empty seats…


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    22 days ago

    This is stupid… I hate Trump, but if you’ve ever been to a rally like this you know that no one sits behind the cameras… You know, because they usually want to actually see the stage

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      TIL that all of the arena is behind cameras, which is why there are empty sections around the entire arena.

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        Go rewatch the video, the rest of the stadium is pretty full, all the way to the nose-bleeds. I enjoy seeing his shrinking crowd sizes, and his fans walking out while he’s talking, but this article doesn’t have much meat on its sandwich.