Donald Trump’s return to the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, was met with a huge crowd over the weekend, a fact the former president has been sharing repeatedly since.
The former president was at the same site where Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate him on July 13. The gunman killed former volunteer fireman Cory Comperatore.
During a recent podcast interview and at another rally in Pennsylvania this week, Trump claimed that as many as 100,000 people turned up to see him, a figure that Newsweek has examined in detail.
The Claim
At a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, Donald Trump said: “We had over 100,000 people…100,000 people on Saturday night.”
In an interview on Andrew Schulz’s Flagrantpodcast, posted on October …