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Claim of the largest-ever inauguration audience

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Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks
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Documented public claim and fact-check

The administration described Trump's inauguration audience as the largest ever. Photographs, transit figures and television ratings did not support the categorical claim.

Evidence basis

independent-corroboration

Dated sources

  1. — TIME (Independent reporting)
  2. — The Washington Post (Independent reporting)

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Canonical citation

Claim of the largest-ever inauguration audience. Donaldtrumpler.com. https://donaldtrumpler.com/records/2017-01-21-inauguration-audience-claim/

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