It happened this Saturday, November 7, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
If the heart count of votes already had the press around the world with their eyes on this city, they fixed them even more when the lawyers of the president and Republican candidate, Donald Trump, summoned the media to a "great" conference of urgent press, while the count continued.
"Lawyers press conference at the Four Seasons, Philadelphia, 11:00 AM," Donald Trump tweeted while playing golf in Virginia.
Four Seasons is a large hotel chain, but the Republican had not mentioned them in one of these establishments, but in the parking lot of a garden store called Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
Trump, a hotelier at heart, announces a press conference at Philadelphia's "Four Seasons" at 11, before specifying it's at Four Seasons Total Landscaping at 11:30.
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- Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) November 7, 2020
Minutes after posting that first message, the Republican corrected the place of the appointment and tweeted again: "Four Seasons Total Landscaping, 11:30 AM".
The place is a gardening company on the outskirts of Philadelphia that for more joke is next to an adult content store (erotic movies and books) and in front of a crematorium, in the middle of an industrial estate.
Social media users had material to laugh at such eccentricity for a long time: the words "Four Seasons" have appeared in more than 500,000 tweets in less than a day, while some followers of both candidates turned around to see what happened. over there.
Richard Hall, a correspondent for the British newspaper
The Independent
, commented on the play live on what was happening inside and outside the conference.
Is Donald Trump convening the world's press at a small landscaping company on the outskirts of Philadelphia?
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- Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) November 7, 2020
By then the Four Seasons hotel in Philadelphia had already denied on its social networks that Trump's lawyers were going to meet at its facilities.
To clarify, President Trump's press conference will NOT be held at Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia.
It will be held at Four Seasons Total Landscaping— no relation to the hotel.
- Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia at Comcast Center (@FSPhiladelphia) November 7, 2020
"When reporters arrived, they were stunned by the scene. The parking lot of a landscaping business on the outskirts of the city was the gray backdrop for a conference by a president who wanted to convince Americans that he still had a chance to win. ", mentioned the American medium
Slate
.
The press conference happened minutes before the media gave Joe Biden the winner.
The former mayor of New York and lawyer for Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, insisted that the Republican will not grant the election and affirmed without presenting any evidence or evidence that the ballots have been tampered with in Pennsylvania.
"Don't be ridiculous," Giuliani snapped to the press gathered in the parking lot, "the media don't decide the elections," he concluded.
The lawyer said he was accompanied by Republican observers who were not allowed access to the vote count.
"This is false", has written the journalist Richard Hall in his social networks, "the disagreement in this matter was due to the distance to which the observers of the count could be placed".
Verne
contacted Four Seasons Total Landscaping to learn more about why the event was held at their facility, but as of this writing, the company has not provided any response.
"I came here to see if the president's attorneys offered any evidence of the fraud they have been alleging. They haven't. So I'm leaving," said the
Independent
reporter
.
The desperate cry of business mogul Donald Trump not to let go of the presidency was not in a hotel.
It ended up being at a press conference from a parking lot in an industrial park in Philadelphia.
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