Trump bragged about incredible photos of bikers co
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Posted On: 01/19/2017 12:16:44 AM
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Trump bragged about incredible photos of bikers coming to his inauguration. The photos are fake.
Get ready for a shit load a 'fake' from yet another GOP administration that will need to 'create its own reality'. LOL!
Trump falls for fake news .
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-photos-bikers....ciskyf8pv
There is no evidence that record numbers of Trump supporters will turn out for the inauguration. D.C.’s Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is expecting anywhere between 800,000 to 900,000 people to attend the swearing-in ceremony and the parade. In comparison, an estimated 1.8 million people attended President Barack Obama’s first inauguration. And ticket scalpers are reportedly having a difficult time selling tickets to Trump’s ceremony.
Many Trump supporters will show up, but it probably will not be on the scale that Trump purports. “Bikers for Trump” founder Chris Cox requested a permit for 5,000 bikers to help form a “wall of meat” against Trump protesters.
According to Buzzfeed News, the permit was “still being processed and had not yet been issued.” The publication pointed out that only one other pro-Trump biker group has thus far received a permit for 20 people. The Travis Thompson Biker, another pro-Trump group, has requested a permit for 5,000 people, which is still being processed.
Yet Trump supporters have been tweeting out photos and videos apparently showing large groups of bikers on their way to the inauguration. The following aerial photos — which have received numerous retweets — are fake:
The photo from the Twitter handle @YoungDems4Trump showing sleeveless men in the foreground dates from at least 2013, likely from a 9/11 Commemoration Day event. It was also made into a meme labeled “100,00 bikers at Trump Rally. Not one arrest” in May 2016.
Trump has a history of boasting about the size of the expected crowd at his events. Most recently, he said, “all the dress shops are sold out” of inauguration gowns. A Washington Post investigation the day after he broadcast his tweet found ball gowns in stock at high-end stores in D.C. On Tuesday night, a ThinkProgress reporter still found many choices for off-the-rack dresses at downtown D.C.’s ritzy CityCenter, which houses stores like Dior and Louis Vuitton.
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