Press Secretary Sean Spicer: Photographs Of President Trump’s Inauguration Were ‘Intentionally Framed To Minimize Crowd Size’
One day after President Trump’s inauguration, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer criticized journalists for misreporting the number of people who attended the coverage. Spicer also blamed them for “deliberately engaging in false reporting.” After he had made the accusations, Spicer left the briefing room without taking any questions. According to CBS News, Spicer called out two examples of misreporting on Twitter.
The first one was about a widely shared picture that showed the difference in crowds compared to President Obama’s 2009 inauguration and President Trump’s 2017 inauguration. The second example was about the report which claimed that the bust of Martin Luther King had been removed from the White House.
Spicer said both these were clear instances of false reporting.
“Some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting.”
He further added;
“Photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular tweet to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall.”
Watch the video below to hear what Sean Spicer said.
About crowd size estimates, Spicer went on to say that no one actually has the actual numbers. In fact, even the National Park Service does not have any numbers since they do not put the numbers out. He was, however, quick to claim that “this was the largest audience to ever witness the inauguration period both in person and around the globe.”
Please read this entire remarkable bit in which @seanspicer yelled at the press in his first WH briefing about crowd size reporting: pic.twitter.com/hBiTu3YtcU
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) January 21, 2017
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Press Secretary Sean Spicer: Photographs Of President Trump’s Inauguration Were ‘Intentionally Framed To Minimize Crowd Size’ is an article from: The Inquisitr News
