Was Joe Biden’s Inauguration ‘Empty’?

The National Mall was closed to spectators out of security concerns after the January 6 riots.

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An article from the National Pulse presented President Joe Biden’s inauguration as being almost completely empty. The article states that “Joseph Biden’s ‘inauguration’ is empty. It’s that simple, and that humiliating.” The article claims that the lack of observers wasn’t simply due to coronavirus restrictions with “even the near-side of the National Mall which is allowed to be occupied — empty.”

As with claims made about “empty” Biden campaign events in 2020, the National Pulse article leaves out important context, namely that the National Mall was closed to the public due to security concerns after the January 6 storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters. As noted on the National Parks website, there were no in-person events for the inauguration, with only virtual events for the general public and very limited attendance for Biden’s swearing-in. Even before the attack on Congress, Biden’s team was planning for an “extremely limited” inauguration to prevent the event from becoming a COVID super-spreader.

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  1. Curtis C

    I see that National Pulse had such integrity posting this claim that they posted the author as “staff writer.” Nice...

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    1. Curtis C

      Nobody wanted the humiliation of putting their name on it.

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  3. Scott Mc

    Gosh do you think readers here need this to know? I hope not.

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    Trevor Reid

    The empty inauguration is proof of massive unprecedented election fraud. If they couldn’t get anyone to come to the inauguration, how did they get 81 million people to vote for Biden. C’mon sheeple.

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      Adam Bridge

      I hope this is humor.

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      1. Curtis C

        It is.

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    Matmos

    I knew they were going to do this. “Why did so few people show up? I mean, there was just a pandemic and credible threats of violence that caused the mayor to shut the city down!”

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  6. Counterpoint

    I feel like I barely have need to say this, but someone has to put it in writing:

    That picture clearly shows the largest inauguration crowd in history. Way more people than 2008 or the prior record crowd in 2016.

    I demand that Jen Psaki immediately start spending her entire daily press briefing correcting the record on this. It's that important.

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      Mudskipper

      I think it would be very funny if Psaki started claiming with a straight face that Biden had the largest inauguration crowd in history. Way bigger than Trump's.

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    3. VcL

      You are very funny! :-D

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