GOP front-runner Donald Trump is not happy with the coverage he’s getting on the speech he gave yesterday to a “half-empty ballroom” in North Charleston, SC.
Here he is going after Jonathan Martin of the New York Times over Martin’s write-up of the event:
My report from SC on Trump, whose first event had scores of empty chairs > http://t.co/AXWidtmZzr pic.twitter.com/1Mpqa8nDww
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) September 24, 2015
According to Trump, Martin is “dishonest” and a “liar” for refusing “to acknowledge” the “massive crowd surge forward during” the speech:
Dishonest @nytimes reporter Jonathan Martin refused to acknowledge massive crowd surge forward… https://t.co/9Emtq4NdbZ
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2015
Trump posted these photos to Instagram to make his case:
But what’s so “dishonest” about what Martin wrote? Here’s how it was described in the NYT:
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What’s so unfair about that? As we reported yesterday, the size of the crowd was corroborated by other reporters in attendance at the event:
Audience for Donald Trump’s South Carolina stop not quite arena-sized [photos]
Rosie Gray of BuzzFeed even made a point of tweeting a photo from Trump’s second event to give a fair accounting of what happened:
https://twitter.com/RosieGray/status/646805279003267072
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