The National Park Service on Monday released hundreds of ground and aerial photographs its staff shot of President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. It also released photos of the swearing-in of former President Barack Obama four and eight years ago. They are contained in “Batch 4″ of the “NAMA 2017″ photos of the crowd released Monday through a Freedom of Information Act request by The Washington Post and other media. Photos taken by news outlets during the inauguration also showed a crowd size smaller than Obama’s during his first inauguration in 2009. “What this does is validate the other photos that were out there in January,” said Dan Gross, who was in charge of crowd logistics for Obama’s 2013 inauguration.

Source: National Post March 07, 2017 16:07 UTC