The source was given in the OP.
I have news for you: the fire department doesn't give a damn about whether the people in a room are liberal or conservative. You seem to care about that. The fire department cares about whether a room has not more people than can be safely fit into the room. That's why they count the quantity of people entering the place.
Really? So the fireman stood there and counted 4500 people or whatever the number was down to the last person?
I don't know whether it was a fireman, but someone or several individuals or some gizmo had the job of doing so or was used to do so. Also, per the OP, the counted quantity of attendees was 4,169, not 4,500.
Let me look into this and get back to ya. I heard from a valuable source that it was almost 15000
The people were lined up for five goll dang miles!
According to Laura Ingraham.
LOL. Lined up for five miles. In other words, there were people who were a 100 yards to five miles distant from the room where the rally occurred and the dais at which the president stood delivering his remarks. Sorry, but that doesn't count as being in attendance at the rally/speech. By that measure, I was at Trump's inauguration and attended all the inaugural balls despite my being
at a friend's party some 3.5 miles away. LOL (There was a television on that was showing the inauguration. That must count. Not. LOL)
Lined up for miles awaiting a chance to meet Trump is not the same as being present at the specific event and place where and when he delivered his speech. Near Trump's rally? Sure. At the rally? No.
There's a difference between wanting to be at an event, attempting to be at an event, etc. and actually being in attendance at an event, most especially an event held inside a building in a room as contrasted with an event such as Trump's inauguration which was held outdoors.
The people, for example, who, from their flats at
565,
701, and
801 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, watched what they could of the inaugural parade can be counted among the parade attendees, but not as inauguration attendees for merely being in the area doesn't constitute being at an event taking place in that area. The people in units that have no view onto Penn. Ave., along with folks a block away, the folks who were still on the National Mall, and everyone else who was not on the parade route cannot counted as inaugural parade attendees.