Even in some alternative universe where the flimsy press conspiracy theory you've put forward were correct: how incompetent and stupid would an honest Spicer have to be to say the crap he did without any pics or justification to back himself up. It's far more likely that he's a lying piece of shit (as is befitting for his job), who trusts in a certain portion of society to lap it regardless of reality. If Trump's rally really was bigger, there would have been plenty of ground-based pics/videos to compare to the aerial ones.
In the end you seem to admit that it was a lie, but I get the impression it doesn't matter to you. Does supporting the tribe come first regardless of inconvenient aspects of reality?
I admit he might be wrong, which is not the same thing.
If Trump's rally really was bigger, there would have been plenty of ground-based pics/videos to compare to the aerial ones.
There's the CNN Gigapixel, though that was a new thing we didn't have for Obama.
Hard to say. There was some debate whether the most-circulated photo was taken during the inauguration or an hour beforehand. Wouldn't be hard; it isn't like they allow a lot of helicopters over central DC. All it would take is one sour press pool photographer (that was a sour bunch indeed), and they really like committing that particular fraud. They did it just yesterday:
https://nitter.net/RawStory/status/1530678562688323586
https://archive.ph/zpKzb
Ultimately, though, I can believe the 93% Democrat city turned out for their diversity hire more easily than Trump supporters coming from everywhere else.