Courtesy of Share Blue:@POTUS Obama inauguration photos on the left, Trump on the right--'nuff said: http://pic.twitter.com/7DIUYNLYoW— Vilmos Nagy (@PunjabNagy) March 8, 2017
Donald Trump and his allies triggered an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General that ended up proving, at taxpayers’ expense, that he is not nearly as popular as former President Barack Obama.
After Trump’s sparsely attended inauguration, he and his team put on a full-court press to prove that it was the most attended inauguration event in Washington history. The claim was the focus of press secretary Sean Spicer’s first briefing, during which he infamously claimed, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.”
Now the Inspector General has released its findings after it received a complaint, which alleged that National Park Service employees had been instructed to alter official records on crowd sizes. The complaint also insinuated that public relations employees of the service had leaked the details of calls between Trump and the acting director of the park service about his disappointing crowd size.
Unfortunately for team Trump, the Inspector General’s investigation came up empty.
“We did not find evidence to substantiate any of these allegations.” The report further indicates, “All of the witnesses we interviewed denied that the NAMA official instructed staff to alter records for the inauguration or to remove crowd size information. We also found no evidence that the public affairs employees released any information to the media about the President’s phone call.”
The facts of the case remain the same as they were on the day Trump was sworn in: There were more people at Obama’s inauguration. Period.
Unbelievable!
This idiot just cannot let things go.
Don't forget he also spearheaded the search for the park service employee who first pointed out that his crowds were significantly smaller than President Obama's.
Here we are over six months into this debacle called the Trump presidency and due to his vast and debilitating insecurities we are STILL talking about the inauguration crowd size.
This is going to be a long four years.
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