Overhead Shot of Trump’s Bronx Rally Tells a Different Story About Crowd Size

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly boasted about the crowd size attending Thursday’s political rally in the Bronx, as his custom. However, a local New York evening news report from ABC7’s Jim Dolan revealed a different story about how many people attended and who actually made up the crowd.

The segment offered a surprisingly hard-hitting take on the rally, standing in stark contrast to typical cable news fodder that can get caught up in partisan emotions of an event , or fail to challenge people in power with absurdly brazen claims.

Dolan first featured the comments of local Bronx residents who showed up to protest Trump, the first of which said of Trump, “First of all, he’s a big fat bigot and he just doesn’t have any love in his heart for anyone, anyone of color, anyone who’s in the LGBTQ plus community.” A second protestor said of Trump “He’s a crook, a liar, and a cheat. And he tries to make money off people. And that’s what he’s doing right now.”

But b-roll of the event shown to viewers during Dolan’s report painted a remarkably different picture than what Trump boasted about regarding crowd size. NOTE: The “11:09” time graphic represents the time the segment aired local time, which was 11:09 PM, and not the time that the photo was taken.

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Dolan then pivoted to the home states of the pro-Trump rallygoers in attendance, with the aid of an unnamed professor who said, “They’re all from out of state. Go out there. Look at all them. Call that a pocket check out of where they came from. Tennessee. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas.”

Dolan did find one pro-Trump rally-goer but he was not from The Bronx, he was from Queens.

“ Donald Trump can now say he held a rally in the South Bronx, home to immigrants and minority communities, and that it was well attended,” Dolan wrapped his report. “It’s just not clear that the people who attended were from the Bronx. The campaign controlled who got in, and the campaign, of course, picked only supporters.”

Watch above via ABC7 New York.