Donald Trump’s latest crowd size brag backfires as camera operator pans to reveal empty seats

Camera person fact-checks Trump's crowd claims in realtimeSource Reuters

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00:00had the biggest rallies in history of any country. And every rally's full. You don't have any seats

00:08that are empty. You don't have anything yet. I mean, the one we had today, you missed a beauty.

00:14We could have filled that place up 20 times. I mean, that was beautiful. And the Virginia rally,

00:20did you hear about the Virginia rally? That was Glenn Youngkin did a great job,

00:25the governor of Virginia, and they had a crowd there that was incredible. And then we came here

00:30and we don't want to be late, but it's very hard when you do these things. It's

00:34very hard. And you don't mind a little bit. We weren't very late. We weren't very late.

00:38Just a few minutes, just a few minutes, depending on your definition of when it's going to start.

00:46But you know, we've been doing, I was talking to some of the people, it's sort of, you know,

00:50in a way it's sad and in a way it's beautiful. I was talking to them and I said, you know,

00:54this is coming to an end. These rallies are coming to an end. We've been doing them,

00:58think of it, for like nine years. We started a year before and we've had tremendous success.

01:05In 2016, we did phenomenally, right? We went in and they said they gave us a 3% chance

01:14and sort of like amazing, right? 3%.