The Daily Show host has destroyed Donald Trump’s wild claim that the crowd of supporters who flocked to see him speak on January 6 rivaled the crowd that turned out to hear Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic “I have a dream” speech during the March on Washington. You look at it and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd – we actually had more people,” he claimed. Daily Show host destroys Trump’s claims about his crowd size (The Daily Show)MLK Jr’s iconic speech during the 1963 March on Washington drew in an estimated 250,000 people. By contrast, an estimated 53,000 people attended Trump’s speech on January 6 2021, according to the House Select Committee investigation. Trump’s wild boast came about when a reporter brought up the large crowds that Harris is drawing in to her campaign events.

Source: Washington Post August 09, 2024 10:40 UTC