Did the media misrepresent the size of the crowd at Donald Trump's Inauguration? Watch the footage and decide for yourself

Did the media misrepresent the size of the crowd at Donald Trump’s Inauguration? Watch the footage and decide for yourself

Nathan Lawrence used FOIA to get Smithsonian’s grainy video of the event
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Amid the controversy over White House claims that the media had misrepresented the size of crowds at Donald Trump’s Inauguration, Nathan Lawrence filed a FOIA for surveillance footage from the nearby Smithsonian Institute. That footage arrived this week, and we’ll let you be the judge.

Header image in public domain via White House

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