(9 Aug 2024)
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Palm Beach, Florida – 8 August 2024
++BEGINS AND ENDS ON SOUNDBITES++
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, Former U.S. President:
"No, I think the people that if you look at January 6th, which a lot of people aren’t talking about very much, I think those people were treated very harshly, when you compare them to other things that took place in this country where a lot of people were killed, nobody was killed on January 6th. But I think that the people of January 6th were treated very unfairly. And they were they were there to complain. Not through me. They were there to complain about an election. And, you know, it’s very interesting, the biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken to. And I said peacefully and patriotically, which nobody wants to say, but I said peacefully and patriotically, the biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken to, and you’ve seen Maggie? I was in at the mall. I was at the Washington Monument. I was at the whole thing. I had crowds, I don’t know who’s ever had a bigger crowd than I have, but I have had it many times. The biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken before was that day. And I’ll tell you, it’s very hard to find a picture of that crowd. You see the picture of a small number of people relatively going to the Capitol, but you never see the picture of the crowd. The biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken. I’ve spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King when he, did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people. If not, we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people. But when you look at the exact same picture and everything’s the same, because it was the fountains, the whole thing, all the way back to, from Lincoln to Washington. And you look at it and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd. We actually had more people. They said I had 25,000, and he had a million people. And I’m okay with it because I liked Doctor Martin Luther King."
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STORYLINE:
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, in his Thursday news conference in Palm Beach, Florida, made a number of false and misleading claims.
That includes his comparison between the crowd at his speech in front of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021 and the crowd that attended Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial.
Trump said "nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people.”
Approximately 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which King gave his speech, according to the National Park Service. The Associated Press reported in 2021 that there were at least 10,000 people at Trump’s address.
Moreover, Trump and King did not speak in the same location.
King spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, which looks east toward the Washington Monument. Trump spoke at the Ellipse, a grassy area just south of the White House.
Also on Thursday, Trump falsely claimed that “nobody was killed on Jan. 6.”
Five people died in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and its immediate aftermath after pro-Trump rioters breached the U.S. Capitol that day amid Congress’ effort to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
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