Kellyanne Conway was accused of once again spreading “alternative facts” with her comments on Donald Trump’s visit to a church in Detroit this weekend.
“You got Donald Trump in Detroit talking to 8,000 people in a black church,” Conway boasted to Fox News’ Maria Bartimo.
Conway managed Trump’s 2016 campaign and later served as his White House adviser. She sought to highlight what she believes is a huge difference in support for the presumptive Republican nominee versus President Joe Biden in the upcoming 2024 election.
But videos of the event at 180 Church shared online showed the crowd may have only numbered in the hundreds.
And as Reuters noted, “While some fervent MAGA-hat-clad supporters waited for hours to get in, the line numbered in the hundreds, not thousands, and some attendees said they arrived at the scene by chance. When the event started, the church was not at full capacity.”
MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin, meanwhile, was among those who noted that “most of the people who came to the event were not black.”
Conway’s “8,000 people” claim is the latest in a long line of her reality-denying defenses of Trump, following her “alternative facts” response to his inauguration-sized falsehoods and reference to the “Bowling Green massacre” that never actually happened.
The alternative facts lady always brings the alternative facts.
— 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢 (@ChidiNwatu) June 16, 2024
Ms. Alternative Facts strikes again. It couldn’t possibly have been eight thousand people in that church.
— Jules Morgan 🧸 (@glamelegance) June 16, 2024
That church could not accommodate 8,000 people, let alone black people. Blow those numbers up.
— 🌸 🐾 A to Z 🐾🌸 (@A_tothe_Z_Amber) June 16, 2024
The queen of lying is at it again. It seemed to me like 200 mostly white people.
— Suzanne McCain (@McCainSuzanne) June 16, 2024
There were about 150 white people and 10 black people with a dipstick for alternative facts.
— Karen (@klsmd12) June 16, 2024
But they were mostly WHITE! My god, these people are lying all over the place this morning.
And it certainly wasn’t 8,000 people.— Claire S🖤🩷🖤 (@SaintLaurant) June 16, 2024
The church held a few hundred people and most were white. Not to mention, about 1/3 of the church was empty, you lying sack of shit
— WTFGOP (@DogginTrump) June 16, 2024
