evidence: He started off by calling the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol a "simple protest that got out of hand." Trump then said "that was the largest crowd that I have ever spoken to … that was a crowd where there was unbelievable love and patriotism in the air." (He repeated his claim about the crowd being the biggest crowd he had ever spoken to no fewer than three times.) [...] According to the National Archives, more than 250,000 demonstrators attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that King spoke at in 1963. The crowd for Trump’s speech is harder to pin down – largely because Trump so politicized crowd counts. There’s no question there were thousands of people there, but it seem very unlikely that the crowd rivaled that of King. And even less likely that there were 1 million or more people on the mall that July day.