As if it really matters, the bottom line is this.  What the White House Secretary said can neither be proven nor dis-proven.  What he said is this.

Quote: 

"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period"

 

Now where the whole "uproar" stems from is that many of the liberal media, especially CNN were showing a misleading caparison graphic of Obama's and Trump's inauguration as "fact", and it was their big "headline" regarding the inauguration.  The problem is, nobody really tracks actual numbers at the event.  The crowd size numbers were being portrayed as FACT when it's impossible to know for sure.

 

The other thing to consider is that in this day and age, there are far more smart-phones and other streaming capable devices around all over the world.  It's conceivable that this inauguration was in fact witnessed by the "largest audience ever".  However, once again nobody tracks the numbers, so it can't be said that it's actual FACT.

 

The term "alternative fact" is simply saying that the GUESS as far as "audience witnessing an inauguration" could be figured out in more than one way.

 

As I said, it doesn't really matter to most people either way.  The real point is though, the MSM needs to go back to reporting actual FACTS rather than posting OPINION.

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