Krystal Ball
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There were all kinds of like...
Epstein-affiliated criminals who were in the crowd as well.
You had Howard Lutnick was there as well in the front row.
The whole thing just felt cursed.
And it did from the beginning.
I put D3 up on the screen.
The lines that the fans had to go through to get into this event at all were insane.
I mean, they had to wait their hours to go through security because of the president being there.
And these are people who paid...
$10,000 plus for these tickets.
I think the cheapest ticket to get in was around $8,000.
And so they had to go through these long lines.
You can see most of the NYPD was apparently at Madison Square Garden to help to secure the event.
I will say it looked like there was a lot of concerns that it tip off.
Half the crowd wouldn't even be in the building.
But it looks like people showed up early and did what they needed to do to get inside.
The whole area here around Midtown Manhattan was closed off, which I'm sure was a nightmare for the restaurants and bars that expect to make a lot of money because of their, you know, location next to Madison Square Garden.
So not great there as well.
But, you know, your point about like the optics of it getting booed in his hometown.
Yeah.