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Kenji MoonfieldA clip from Monday shows President Trump stopping on the helipad before leaving for Kansas, waving and saluting toward what looks like empty space.
Kenji MoonfieldLeonard Mabry, Inmate 40718, joins us from FCI Danbury. So, what did you see?
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Leonard MabryI saw a man greeting his crew.
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Leonard MabryA fact-check says he was waving at support staff and technical crews, and I've stood in front of nine of those. Make it eleven.
Kenji MoonfieldBut the camera shows nobody there. Critics are calling it mental decline, and one commentator on X says he has no doubt about it.
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Leonard MabryThe clip was cropped. NTD says when the camera widened, the area wasn't empty.
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Leonard MabryCrews stand low and quiet, and I've been that quiet, in a certain warehouse. Twelve of us, actually.
Kenji MoonfieldA certain warehouse?
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Leonard MabryNo comment, my lawyer has the other half of the clipboard.
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Leonard MabryAnyway, the camera people never get waved at, so when it finally happens, everyone assumes a hallucination.
Kenji MoonfieldAlternet says it lasted about thirty seconds. That's a long wave for a crew that stays out of frame.
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Leonard MabryThirty seconds is a standing ovation for a lighting guy.
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Leonard MabryI'd say there were fourteen of them, and that's the number I told the judge too.
Kenji MoonfieldSo you're saying you were waving at a crowd of fourteen that wasn't there. Is that a yes?
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Leonard MabryI'm saying a ticket is a ticket, and they paid for fifteen. One report says the White House hasn't given a statement either, so we're both staying quiet.
Kenji MoonfieldFifteen. Okay, Leonard, that's the part that gets you in trouble.
Kenji MoonfieldEleven people finally got waved at, and the internet sent them a neurologist.
