Sunday’s New York Times didn’t hold back on newly sworn in President Donald Trump, with a front page story titled “With False Claims, Trump Attacks Media on Turnout and Intelligence Rift.” With subheadlines of “Bitter Attack in Speech” and “Claims on Crowd Size and C.I.A. Rift Are at Odds With Facts” in the print version, you can see where this is going.

Saying that ““the president and his team appeared embattled and defensive,” the Times‘ Julie Hirschfield Davis and Matthew Rosenberg focused on two topics:

• Trump ignoring has past statements about the intelligence community during his speech at the CIA Memorial Wall.
• Trump and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer claiming that the media deliberately underreported the size of the crowd at Friday’s inauguration, including framing photos to make the crowd appear smaller.

The former is fairly self-explanatory: There were plenty of complaints from intelligence officials about Trump giving a speech that largely complained about the media at the most sacred location inside the headquarters of an organization he compared to Nazis, with one retired CIA analyst calling the speech “a stroking expedition.”

For the latter, the Times addressed the claims about the crowd size relative to both Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration and Saturday’s Women’s March by displaying photographic comparisons, asking DC Metro officials, and speaking to crowd scientists. The images, taken from the same angle, plainly show more people at the non-Trump events, even taking the use of white floor coverings on Friday into account. With regards to rides on the Metro subway system, “A Metro official said that more than a million rail trips were taken Saturday, the second-highest day in its history after Barack Obama’s first inauguration in 2009. More than 570,000 rail trips were taken on Friday.”

And as for the scientists? They posited that, specific to the National Mall and surrounding areas, there were “about 160,000” people there “in the hour leading up to Mr. Trump’s speech Friday” and “at least 470,000” people at the peak of the march, about 2:00 p.m. Saturday.

With regards to Spicer’s claims during his first press briefing on Saturday, where he said that Trump’s inauguration day had more Metro rides than Obama’s first in 2009, the figures that the Times were provided say otherwise. The Times article says that Spicer “incorrectly claimed that ridership on Washington’s subway system was higher than on Inauguration Day in 2013” when, in actuality, there were 782,000 for Inauguration Day 2009 and 571,000 on Friday. Spicer also claimed that new security measures kept “hundreds of thousands of people” from attending on the National Mall, but the Secret Service told the Times that procedures “were largely unchanged this year.” Reports of long lines and/or delays were also minimal.

With this piece the heels of CNN anchors and reporters calling out Trump and Spicer as liars on Saturday, it looks like this battle isn’t ending any time soon.

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