Trump announced a third bid for the presidency on Tuesday, at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
As Trump arrived down the escalator at his June 2015 launch, the real-estate mogul looked at the assembled crowd and said:"Wow. Woah. That is some group of people. Thousands!"
However, that isn't how then Reuters intern Wise remembered the event. She said:"There were a few dozen people lining the area leading down to the escalator, and then there were a couple dozen downstairs where the event actually took place." "That kind of frenetic energy that we got later on," Wise said."It just wasn't there—it just wasn't there."later claimed people had been offered $50 to attend the event and cheer Trump, with an advert from the New York based Extra Mile Casting saying it was looking to"cast people for the event to wear T-shirts and carry signs and help cheer him in support of his announcement.
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