Me? Or Your Lyin’ Eyes?

Debate rages as Harris team claims 'many empty seats as Trump is speaking' at latest rally https://t.co/KpUM60qmGw

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 4, 2024

NPR's Stephen Fowler took issue with the posts, saying, "The Harris campaign is using an outdated screen grab of a video feed to say there’s a lot of empty seats at Trump’s rally." 

"The only seats that are open right now as Trump is speaking are a few rows for press that are on risers/on the floor," Fowler added. "Republicans (and Trump) also claim that Harris’ rally was only full for Megan Thee Stallion and people left en masse when Harris was speaking - which isn’t true (The reality is that tons of people are excited for both candidates - and people leave early to avoid crowds to leave)."

Ummm...that would be this:

Camera pans to show many empty seats as Trump is speaking

(This arena was completely full during Vice President Harris’ rally earlier this week) pic.twitter.com/6exQsaBMO9

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 3, 2024

Seems to be taken from the RSBN live feed. Why would they put an outdated pan of the seats against a live shot of Trump speaking? Sabotage?

This one was posted as Trump started speaking.

Left: Vice President Harris’ completely full rally in Atlanta four days ago

Right: Empty seats at Trump’s Atlanta rally in the exact same arena today pic.twitter.com/r6pEpFQ7nd

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 3, 2024

Were people already leaving then? And why did Trump mention the empty seats?

Trump: The school administration stopped us from getting another 500, 600 even 1000 people in.. If they're going to stand in the way of admitting people to our rally imagine what they are they're going to do on election day. pic.twitter.com/IMHFKiSVEl

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 3, 2024

At the beginning of his speech.

Trump blames “the school administration” for hundreds of empty seats at his rally

(Vice President Harris filled every seat in this same arena four days ago) pic.twitter.com/umQFE3643n

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 3, 2024

And again.

Trump, seething: There’s some empty seats up there... This is obviously a very liberal school I guess pic.twitter.com/dAUZx2Fomp

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 3, 2024

And again. Or maybe he meant these seats:

Sad, @realdonaldtrump pic.twitter.com/H7O3GDr6nF

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 4, 2024

 Or these?

Empty seats are definitely visible at Trump's rally in Atlanta pic.twitter.com/oXDRH6ETdG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 3, 2024

Those aren’t “risers on the floor.”

A lot of empty seats at the Donald Trump rally in Atlanta 👀

Vice President Harris had every single seat filled in the same arena just this week. pic.twitter.com/RzKK72LTrz

— Ammar Moussa (@ammarmufasa) August 3, 2024

I know it’s kind of a dumb thing to care about, I admit. But shit, man, are you telling us all of those pictures are lies?