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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts)
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 04:31 PM Jul 2017

Donald Trump continues to have problems with crowd size.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/trump-trashes-his-attorney-general-yet-again-sessions-just-wanted-to-be-a-part-of-my-big-crowds/#.WXel8POZ-oc.twitter

Jeff Sessions was the only Senator to endorse Trump in the primary, but President Trump is no longer giving him credit for his political support, claiming Sessions only endorsed him because of Trump’s crowd sizes.

“When they say he endorsed me, I went to Alabama,” Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “I had 40,000 people.”

“But he was a senator, he looks at 40,000 people and he probably says, ’What do I have to lose?’ And he endorsed me,” Trump explained. “So it’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement.”


Yeah, except he held that event at a 7,000 seat high school football stadium. From February 2016:


Trump began by introducing Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, who gave Trump his endorsement ahead of Tuesday’s primary election, which will see Republican delegates up for grabs in a dozen states, including Alabama.

Trump estimated the crowd to be between 30,000 and 35,000, but the Madison City Police said about 10,000 attended the event. The stadium’s seating capacity is listed at 7,000, according to Madison City Schools.


I mean, I suppose he could be referring to an August 2015 rally in Mobile where Sessions spoke but hadn't yet endorsed him. Trump claims there were 40,000 people at that event. The stadium there regularly seats 33,000 for football games, but considering the stadium was actually just half full, there were probably just about 20,000 people there, tops:



Donald Trump and crowd size is much like Gob Bluth and his expensive suits:

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