Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd

[Stonepounder]

Source: Washington Post

On the morning after Donald Trump’s inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.

In a Saturday phone call, Trump personally ordered Reynolds to produce additional photographs of the previous day’s crowds on the Mall, according to three individuals who have knowledge of the conversation. The president believed that the photos might prove that the media had lied in reporting that attendance had been no better than average.

Trump also expressed anger over a retweet sent from the agency’s account, in which side-by-side photographs showed far fewer people at his swearing-in than had shown up to see Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.

According to one account, Reynolds had been contacted by the White House and given a phone number to call. When he dialed it, he was told to hold for the president.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pressured-park-service-to-back-up-his-claims-about-inauguration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpcall725p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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Just more Alternative Reality from the baby-man in the White House.

[riversedge]

1. I fear for the Federal words these next 4 years.

[tenorly]

2. Using state resources for purely political purposes is a hallmark of despots.

Like almost everything else King Con does, really.

[doc03]

3. This doesn't prove he is nuts!

[mpcamb]

4. Nobody likes him or would walk across the street to watch him. He needs to get used to it.

Nobody except paid Ruskies and Macedonians.

[brooklynite]

5. My guess is: career professionals are going to tire of the pettiness of these demands...

...and bail out of Government service.

[erronis]

10. Yes, and that is the intent.

There are lots of acolytes waiting in the wings to take up the cause of their leader (Putin?).

If the military and other structured LEO are infiltrated by Bob Jones/LibertyU style "universities" we may see a true invasion of the body snatchers.

I fear if the seasoned career are forced out or resign in disgust. That seems to be the plan and the future is bleak with apparatchiks.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Less than a week

And he's a bigger buffoon than most expected.

[iluvtennis]

7. + 1000

[BeyondGeography]

8. And we were supposed to be dopes for taking him literally

Hey, wingnuts, joke's on you. He's literally out of his mind.

[canetoad]

9. I don't have the link to hand

But the other day read an article about the photographer who took that long, high-up shot towards the podium, showing all the white empty spaces.

He had to climb about 500 (or more) stairs to get to his vantage point. First he had to get permission from, you guessed it, the acting National Park Service Director.

[pfitz59]

11. During his interview with David Muir

He repeatedly obsessed over the crowd size. Even pointing out a blown up copy from the podium looking out (not the monument looking in). He then went on a rant about voter fraud and how "I would have won the popular vote if I wanted to". WTF? Trump has the weakest ego I have ever seen

[world wide wally]

12. He's right...

I am tired of winning

[TomVilmer]

13. Even Alt Right News accept that Obama's crowd was bigger

Breitbart republished an AP-report about smaller crowd than Obama's without comments, and even Alex Jones in his mad support of Trump also accepted this.

[Cha]

14. KO on blotus and reality

[Ilsa]

15. Oh, I'm gonna use that. nt

[Cha]

16. Me too.. thanks KO