{"id":1965389,"date":"2023-07-06T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checkers-sad-attempt-to-minimize-trump-rally-attendance-blows-up-in-their-faces\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:06:17","slug":"fact-checkers-sad-attempt-to-minimize-trump-rally-attendance-blows-up-in-their-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checkers-sad-attempt-to-minimize-trump-rally-attendance-blows-up-in-their-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-checkers&#8217; failed attempt to downplay Trump rally turnout backfires."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-checkers-sad-attempt-to-minimize-trump-rally-attendance-blows-up-in-their-faces%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1965389&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Fact-Checkers&#8217; Sad Attempt to Minimize Trump Rally Attendance Blows Up in Their Faces<\/h2>\n<p>On Monday, Fox News published a report titled: \u201cTrump draws massive crowd of at least 50K in small South Carolina town of 3,400: police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article covered former President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/2024-final-battle-trump-takes-entire-town-50000-rally-show-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rally<\/a> in Pickens, South Carolina, on Saturday, which, according to the police chief of the town, drew a crowd of over 50,000 Trump supporters to the tiny town.<\/p>\n<p>But community note contributors on Twitter weren\u2019t willing to accept that the former president was still able to draw crowds of this size.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musk-grills-target-sick-charity-donation-twitter-exposes-retail-giant-community-note\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community note<\/a> was added to the Fox News tweet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-draws-massive-crowd-50k-small-south-carolina-town-3400-police?intcmp=tw_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the article<\/a> that read: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Police Chief Randall Beach initially estimated the crowd to be 50,000, he said he would need to confirm those numbers with the Secret Service. A Secret Service agent later clarified to the news that approximately 15,000 were in attendance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it turns out the fact-checkers were doing a little less \u201cfact-checking\u201d and a little more \u201cfact manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact-checkers cited an article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/07\/01\/crowds-react-to-donald-trump-at-july-1-rally-in-pickens-upstate-south-carolina-polls-heat-indictment\/70351856007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenville News<\/a> to support their community note.<\/p>\n<p>The relevant section cited read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Pre-rally estimates of 10,000 to 30,000 were made. During his remarks, Trump claimed the turnout was 75,000. Beach said he needed to get an accurate count from the Secret Service before providing a final number. Around 11 am, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cassidy-hutchinson-testimony-at-jan-6-hearing-would-be-inadmissible-in-real-court-attorney\/\" title=\"Cassidy Hutchinson Testimony at Jan. 6 Hearing Would Be Inadmissible in Real Court: Attorney\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-mocked-trump-for-hiding-in-his-bunker-after-antifa-and-black-lives-matter-insurrectionists-tried-to-storm-the-white-house-last-year-injuring-dozens-of-cops\/\" title=\"Biden Mocked Trump for \u2018Hiding in His Bunker\u2019 After Antifa and Black Lives Matter Insurrectionists Tried to Storm the White House Last Year, Injuring Dozens of Cops\">secret service agent<\/a> told<\/a> the News there are 5,000 inside the gate and approximately 10,000 still in line.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With some convenient cherry-picking, the fact-checkers used the estimated 5,000 people inside plus the 10,000 still in line mentioned by the Secret Service agent and came up with a grand total of 15,000 people at the rally.<\/p>\n<p>An impressive math feat.<\/p>\n<p>What they did not mention, however, is that that estimate was made at 11 o\u2019clock in the morning. Trump\u2019s plane hadn\u2019t even landed at that point, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/01\/trump-rally-south-carolina-00104526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the article cited is titled: \u201cTrump in SC: Tens of thousands pack Pickens. More than 50 treated for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/call-911-if-you-notice-this-symptom-on-a-hot-day\/\" title=\"Call 911 if You Notice This Symptom on a Hot Day\">heat-related illness<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, correct me if I\u2019m wrong, but \u201ctens\u201d of thousands generally means more than one ten and a five.<\/p>\n<p>But, maybe the fact-checkers missed the fact that the title of the very article they cited actually implies in its title that there were well more than 15,000 there that day.<\/p>\n<p>They must have also missed the part in the very same article they cited, where Beach \u201creiterated his crowd estimate of 50,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not be shocked if it were closer to 60 (thousand),\u201d he told the newspaper. \u201cIf someone has an estimate closer to 70 (thousand), I wouldn\u2019t question it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That statement by Beach was made on Sunday, the day after the rally, not at 11 a.m. on Saturday, hours before the rally had even started.<\/p>\n<p>So the part about the Secret Service agent\u2019s estimate being the \u201clater\u201d one was, let\u2019s just say, sadly mistaken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/facebook-accuses-critics-cherry-picking-leaks-spark-outrage-senate-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cherry-picking<\/a> when it comes to how stories are reported is nothing new, especially when the news is conservative and even more when the story has the word \u201cTrump\u201d in it. So it\u2019s important to stay vigilant, even on a so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checkers-sad-attempt-to-minimize-trump-rally-attendance-blows-up-in-their-faces\/\" title=\"Fact-checkers' failed attempt to downplay Trump rally turnout backfires.\">-called bias-free platform<\/a> like Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>As for the contributors who wrote the community note on the article \u2014 if I were a gambler, I\u2019d take any odds that at least one of them has the letters \u201cCNN\u201d in their employment bio.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fact-checkers-sad-attempt-minimize-trump-rally-attendance-blows-faces\/\">Fact-Checkers&#8217; Sad Attempt to Minimize Trump Rally Attendance Blows Up in Their Faces<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reported that former President Donald Trump drew a crowd of over 50,000 supporters in Pickens, South Carolina, a town with a population of 3,400. The rally took place on Saturday and was confirmed by the town&#8217;s police chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2105,"featured_media":1965390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}