NOT REAL NEWS: Photo of large crowd not taken at Trump rally
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NOT REAL NEWS: Photo of large crowd not taken at Trump rally
AMANDA SEITZ, Associated Press 13 hours ago 
In this June 22, 2016 photo, the crowd wait in the parade route in downtown Cleveland to celebrate the Cavaliers basketball team's NBA championship. This photo showing a crowd of nearly one million people engulfing major roadways was not taken during a President Donald Trump rally in Houston this week, as several people falsely claimed on social media.But the image circulating on social media was snapped in June 2016 during a million-person parade that took place in downtown Cleveland to celebrate the Cavaliers' NBA championship. Using a drone, Bruce Bishop and Matt Mishak took the photo while covering the event for the Chronicle-Telegram, a newspaper in Elyria, Ohio. (Bruce Bishop/Elyria Chronicle-Telegram via AP)A photo showing a crowd of nearly one million people engulfing major roadways was not taken during President Donald Trump's rally in Houston this week, as several people falsely claimed on social media.
The president stopped in Houston Monday to stump for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, as part of his multi-stop tour to mobilize GOP voters ahead of the midterm elections. Trump held the event at the 19,000-seat Toyota Center , where crowds gathered outside hours prior to his speech.
But the image circulating on social media was snapped in June 2016 during a million-person parade that took place in downtown Cleveland to celebrate the Cavaliers' NBA championship. Using a drone, Bruce Bishop and Matt Mishak took the photo while covering the event for the Chronicle-Telegram, a newspaper in Elyria, Ohio.
City and team leaders estimated more than one million people attended the day's celebration of the NBA title, which marked an end to Cleveland's 52-year championship drought.
Bishop confirmed to The Associated Press that he took the photo of the crowds, on the corner of Ninth Street and Lakeside Avenue in the city's downtown. The image was used for the newspaper's website and Bishop sent a tweet of the picture on June 22, 2016.
This is not the first time the photo has been falsely identified as being from a Trump rally. The Chronicle-Telegram reiterated the photo's origin on its Facebook page in August 2017, after a conservative website shared the image as purporting to show a crowd of supporters awaiting Trump's arrival in Phoenix.
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Liar!
OMG!
You mean "someone" on social media claimed something that wasn't true?
Oh the humanity ..... stop the presses .... breaking news at eleven .....
Right wing propaganda such as this fake news crowd photo depends on the gullibility and well, stupidity, of the intended recipients. So far it has worked, so I guess the gullibility and stupidity is considerable.
The main stream media clearly spoon feeds biased, left wing garbage by the ton to those on the left and they eat it all up with a spoon. And then report back to the hive for more instruction. Few of those buffoons can think for themselves. They have to be told what to think.
A bigger group intellectual dumb-asses there is not.
Do you really expect anything different from this POS president and POS adminstration.
Poor John. He and fellow lefties still can’t believe so many millions of we true Americans love the job President Trump is doing. He focuses on bad reporting instead of the factual reporting
“ Tens of thousands of people descended on the Toyota Center, some coming from as far away as California, many more from every corner of Texas, all driven by the chance to take part in what they consider to be an epoch-defining movement, a second American Revolution, a secular Great Awakening. To Trump’s base, these rallies are about much more than just getting out the vote for the midterms. They are about saving the country.
“His supporters are up for it. The crowds began gathering here about 10 a.m. Sunday morning, and by sundown nearly 100 people had staked out their spot in line. They slept upright in chairs or on air mattresses laid out in the open. A few of them pitched tents. By Monday afternoon, the blocks surrounding the arena were a swirling mass of humanity decked out in Trump gear and American flags.
The streets, cordoned off into elaborate lanes, were lined with dozens of private vendors hocking Trump gear to the passing throngs. Camera crews from all over the world darted through the lines in search of the most flamboyant Trump fan they could find, and there were plenty. What seemed like an army of Houston police kept a relatively small band of protestors in their designated space, far from the arena
Some news reports Monday night claimed the stands were filled with mostly white people, which is strictly speaking true, but also misleading and, for a mainstream media committed to a certain narrative about Trump and Trump supporters, self-serving in the extreme. In fact, it wasn’t hard to spot black, Hispanic, and Asian Trump supporters scattered throughout the arena and milling about outside.
Alfred and Estella Hernandez, an Hispanic couple from Fort Bend County just outside Houston, said they both took the day off work to be there and wouldn’t miss it for anything. They’re fervent Trump fans, and deeply suspicious of the media. “You don’t hear this from the news, but why shouldn’t Hispanics vote for Trump?” Alfred asked. “I’m Hispanic, and I can tell you that there is a lot more support for Trump in the Mexican-American community than you might think.”
When Trump struck a nationalist note—“We are Americans, our hearts bleed red, white and blue. We are one people, one family, one glorious nation under God”—Alfred heard a message of inclusion. “This is the nationalism we need,” he said. The media, and certainly Trump’s Democratic opponents, heard something else entirely.
That yawning gap, along with the mass political spectacle staged Monday night, will define the electoral battle of 2020, which starts now.“
The seeded article isnt about how many people wanted to see Trump and Cruz.
It is about a photo used as 'fact' that was instead FAKE , since it was a photo of a different city.
Try addressing the topics once in a while will you?
I did. My link had actual photos from outside the event