We tend to forget but prior to candidate Donald J. Trump, in 2015, it was very rare to see presidential rallies with more than a few thousand attendees.
Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders each had sporadic big venue rallies at mostly schools and universities where attendance would top 10,000; however, no one consistently has rallies anywhere near the scale of Trump rallies.
According to the Greenville News, citing the police chief in South Carolina today, over 50,000 people showed up to support President Donald Trump in Pickens. That is a massive crowd of people traveling to one town venue.
[Greenville News] – […] Pickens Police Chief Randall Beach estimated a crowd of 50,000 showed up on a day when afternoon temperatures soared into the mid-90s, causing dozens of people suffer from heat-related illness. … “No way it was less than 50,000,” Beach said. (link)
(Via Daily Mail) – If anyone thought Donald Trump’s legals woes would eat into his public support in red state America then no one thought to tell the people of Pickens, South Carolina.
Its population of 3,300 was swollen by thousands more who crammed into its main street to see the former president hold his first rally since being being charged with mishandling classified documents. Supporters behind him waved ‘witch hunt’ signs as he described how he had been charged under the Espionage Act.
‘Me? the espionage act?’ he said, describing how it was a an ‘act for crimes so heinous’ that the death penalty was needed.
‘it’s one of the most vicious legal theories ever put in a court of law. there’s never been anything like this,’ he added.
Insiders said the words were not the most important thing. The size of the crowd was what mattered about the day, making it a huge show of support.
The tiny city of Pickens closed its streets for the former president, packing in supporters who had traveled from North Carolina and Georgia, as well as South Carolina.
They stood on Main Street, between the county courthouse and Biven’s hardware store.
They heard Trump describe how as president he had ‘absolute right’ to declassify documents. And he said he was changing up his language because of the way he had been forced to appear in court earlier this month.
‘Now the gloves are off from that standpoint, what they’ve done is so terrible,’ he said.
‘So I’ll speak differently than I would have three weeks ago, because you never heard me use this kind of language. I wouldn’t want to out respect for our country and for the office.
‘But we really have no choice. These people are sick. They’re sick people.’
And he called special counsel Jack Smith a ‘thug’ for the way he had been pursued. (read more)
This is just the overflow of people wanting to get into the venue to see Donald Trump in South Carolina . The Left becomes more terrified every time they see this display and immediately look to the DOJ to find news charges to indict Trump for. Democrats will never find a way to… pic.twitter.com/d7upeBYgOq
— 𝔹𝕦𝕕… (@bud_cann) July 1, 2023
WOAH
Tens of thousands of Magadonians have assembled at dawn outside of Trump’s July 4th celebration in South Carolina
This is insane pic.twitter.com/UZLgkhvjUj
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 1, 2023
PRESIDENT TRUMP – Best POTUS since the Original George! America needs PDJT back in the WH now more than ever!!!
Would be nice to be able to see the pictures…<sigh>…Elon needs to get his crap in the same sock.
Here is a 6 min view from behind the stage where President Trump spoke in Pickens,SC July 1,2023.
It shows the massive crowd thats much different than what was broadcast.
6 min video shows Trump walking out to speak from behind the podium.
Wow!😀🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
Thank you so much!!!
That’s awesome!
Even more amazing is that there will be no fighting, no drunkenness, no littering. MAGA conservatives are just a bunch of polite “deplorables.” Go President Trump!
LOVE IT! New term to use= MAGAdonians. I like the sound of that. Now all that’s needed is a meme of the MAGAdonians taking on the Deep State a la 300 style.
DeSantis nay sayers….
This is the kind of thing other candidates get away with constantly — while PDT gets jumped all over for being “rude” (to put it mildly. A dirty trick like this (along with the fringe-left reposting the fake news) is much more “vicious,” “rude,” “hostile,” or whatever other names they constantly put on PDT.
To what you want, but always subtly, in a creepy/sleazy way– being outfront and blunt is a no-no…
I feel sorry at times for Ron Desantis He has turned out to be one sore loser and on top of that must feel desperate to hold on to the donors he has and to try and keep them happy President Trump owes this scum bag nothing and none of the rest of these people running has a leg to stand on when it comes to the people and supporters who love and are loyal to him, He is not going to step down over bogus charges that mean nothing and turns out to be nothing, The police are the ones who counted the people and they said there was 50,000 and if Desantis people dont like it tough
The town had to be shut down so that all the people could be on the streets and thats the great thing about the Us supporters we love President Trump and will fight along side of him for as long as he needs us
It makes my heart soar to see these photos and videos!
Just think, the town’s police (6) force kept the crowd under control.
Aaaannnd….”Something went wrong. Try reloading.” is what comes up when I try to click on either of the above twitter links about the Trump rally. Hmmmm..