It truly is 2020 all over again. And 2016, for that matter.
GOP operative and Trump campaign mastermind Roger Stone has once again been caught trying to bamboozle the American public (though given how gullible Trump's followers are, who can blame him).
Stone attempted to inflate the attendance of Trump's recent rally in New Jersey by using a photo of something else entirely and saying it was a photo of the crowd.
It was actually a photo of the crowd at a Rod Stewart concert. In 1994. In Brazil.
Yeah , New Jersey is in play for @realDonaldTrump. Could Joe Biden draw a crowd like this?— (@)
The mayor of Wildwood, New Jersey, where Trump's rally was held, claimed 100,000 attended, though photos and videos of the event indicate a smaller crowd.
Even if it had drawn 100,000 people, however, Stone's claim is patently absurd.
The photo he chose shows people gathered in Rio de Janeiro for New Year's Eve 1994, where Rod Stewart drew the largest concert crowd in history on Copacabana Beach—the same venue where Madonna recently broke the record for the largest crowd at a standalone concert not part of a larger event.
In any case, there are literally millions of people in that crowd—4.2 million in all according to the Guinness Book of World Records—which is, you know, 40 times more than 100,000. Also? New Jersey is not known for its mountainous beaches. The Poconos are lovely and all but they are nowhere near the ocean.
But no matter! Stone just subsequently claimed the tweet was a joke and that liberals just don't have a sense of humor.
On social media, Trump's slavering acolytes aside, nobody found Stone's dumb tweet particularly amusing.
Dear people not from NJ. The idea that this is Wildwood, NJ is comical. There are no mountains or hills. The whole lower portion of NJ is so flat - the flat Earth society adores it.— (@)
Others countered with a photo alleged to be Trump's actual crowd, which of course paled in comparison.
Anyway, seems like the strategy in 2024 is the same as the last two times Trump ran: Lie through your teeth then blame it on "liberals" when you're unmasked. These guys are so lucky Trump's followers are so gullible since he actually has nothing useful to offer them other than grievance and lies.
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