- Donald Trump: “A lot of times I’ll be making a speech, as an example, in front of a — in Orlando, where you have 20, 25,000 people show up in the sun at 3 in the afternoon in an open venue.” [Donald Trump interview, Washington Post, 4/2/16]
THE TRUTH: There were about 10,000 people there. [Orlando Sentinel, 3/5/16]
- Donald Trump, at his campaign launch: “Whoa. That is some group of people. Thousands. There’s been no crowd like this.” [Business Insider, 6/16/15]
THE TRUTH: There were “no more than a few hundred supporters” there. [Business Insider, 6/16/15]
- Donald Trump: “Everywhere I go I get 30,000 people, 35,000 people.” [Donald Trump, Fox News, 6/4/16]
THE TRUTH: See #1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7.
- Donald Trump on a Phoenix rally: “There were 21,000 people there.” [Donald Trump interview, Washington Post editorial board, 3/21/16]
THE TRUTH: There were about 10,000 there. [KTAR News, 3/19/16]
- Donald Trump: “We were in Costa Mesa. We had a tremendous rally. Who was there? Were you there? Thirty-one thousand people.” [Donald Trump campaign rally, San Diego, 5/27/16]
THE TRUTH: The rally venue only has 8,200 seats. [Independent Journal, April 2016]
- Donald Trump: “We had 21,000 people in Albany.” [Donald Trump interview, Newsday editorial board, 4/15/16]
THE TRUTH: The event “drew more than 15,000 people inside the arena and dozens of protesters outside.” [Albany Business Review, 4/12/16]
- Donald Trump: “There are hundreds of thousands of people all along the highways and they can’t get in.” [Donald Trump Speaks to Rolling Thunder in Washington, DC, 5/29/16]
THE TRUTH: A spokeswoman for Rolling Thunder, which hosted the rally with Trump, estimated the crowd size at 5,000 people. [NBC DWF, 5/30/16]
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