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Donald Trump: “It looked, honestly, looked like a million and a half people. Whatever it was, it was, but it went all the way back to…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2017
It looked, honestly, looked like a million and a half people. Whatever it was, it was, but it went all the way back to the Washington Monument, and I turn on -- and by mistake I get this network, and it showed an empty field, and it said we drew 250,000 people.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Trump defends the crowd size at his inauguration, claiming the media misrepresented the numbers.

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