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Post by heatwavedave on Jun 20, 2020 23:39:22 GMT
Six Trump campaign staffers working on Tulsa rally test positive for Covid-19
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The Trump campaign confirmed six staffers working on the Tulsa rally tested positive for coronavirus, per Campaign Communications Director Tim Murtaugh. #CNN #News
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Post by goldie on Jun 20, 2020 23:44:40 GMT
It is a biological bomb. The effects may not be seen until well after the rally which will give Trump time to infect people at future rallys. Talk about desperate to remain in power.
Biological Bomb Ready To Blow: Trump Defies Medical Experts Pushing MAGA Rally As Virus Cases Spike
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A Tulsa lawyer joins The Beat moments after meeting with the Oklahoma Supreme Court, pushing to force CDC safety recommendations for the planned Trump campaign rally. Medical experts warn the rally is “dangerous.” As coronavirus cases spike in Oklahoma. But, Trump falsely says it is “dying out.” Oklahoma Emergency Room Doctor Samantha White, a conservative, joins the discussion telling MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber it’s a “terrible idea’ because coronavirus cases “are up over 100% over the past week.” (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. www.thebeatwithari.com ). Aired on 6/18/2020.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 20, 2020 23:50:55 GMT
Not seeing many or any face masks here. Watch the HERD THINNING RALLY in Tulsa:
President Trump Holds Rally in Oklahoma | LIVE | NowThis
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TRUMP RALLIES IN OKLAHOMA: Pres. Trump is in Tulsa, OK where he is holding his first rally since the coronavirus pandemic swept the U.S. Oklahoma recently reported its highest single-day increase in new coronavirus cases, as it has seen an 110% increase in the average number of new cases per day from just last week. Tulsa County has the most cases of any county in the state with over 1,800 infections. NBC News reports that both Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House Coronavirus Task Force voiced their opposition to the rally, while Tulsa Health Dept. Executive Director Dr. Bruce Dart told CNN that the rally is a ‘perfect storm of disease transmission.’ Earlier today the Trump campaign confirmed that six staffers working in Tulsa had tested positive for COVID-19, and officials said these staffers will not attend tonight’s rally. Social distancing will not be enforced at the indoor gathering of 19,000 people, and though masks will be handed out, officials say wearing them will be optional, claiming that attendees ‘assume a personal risk’ and ‘that is part of life.’
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 21, 2020 14:52:08 GMT
I think this sums it up. Maybe Sean Spicer will tell us how many people attended the Tulsa rally. The Tulsa Fire Marshal told the Washington Post that were only about 6,100 people in the arena for President Trump’s campaign rally last night, even though the space can hold 19,000. Maybe Trump's and the conservative's lies and bullshit are catching up with them...even with Deplorables.Trump back in rally form in Tulsa, but the promised crowd doesn't showwww.yahoo.com/news/trump-back-in-rally-form-in-tulsa-but-the-promised-crowd-doesnt-show-014255164.html
David Knowles Editor
Yahoo NewsJune 20, 2020, 6:42 PM MST
President Trump’s reelection campaign got off to a rocky start Saturday, with a rally in Tulsa, Okla., that drew a much smaller crowd than his campaign had planned for.
“We begin, we begin our campaign!” Trump said exuberantly as he took the stage at Bank of Oklahoma Center before a crowd that fell far short of filling the 19,000-seat arena.
Trump quickly blamed the “fake news” for discouraging turnout and said “we had some very bad people outside, they were doing some very bad things,” intimating that his supporters had been prevented from entering the arena.
The president then assured those in attendance that “the silent majority is stronger than ever before.”
Settling into a version of the stump speech that he had delivered many times until he suspended campaigns in March as the coronavirus pandemic swept across America, Trump hit all of his familiar themes: his trade deals with China, rebuilding the military, his appointment of hundreds of conservative judges, and told a long anecdote about how much money he saved on the purchase of a new airplane to replace Air Force One.
Missing from his repertoire was his baiting the camera crews to pan the arena and show the size and enthusiasm of the crowd and thanking the fire marshals for letting him exceed the nominal capacity of the auditorium.
Trump mentioned what he termed “the Chinese virus” nearly 10 minutes into his remarks and gave himself high marks for his response to it, emphasizing the steps he took to shore up the price of oil. “It looked like we were in big trouble, and I got it together,” Trump said, adding that he had called the leaders of Russia and Saudi Arabia and “got our energy back to almost $40 a barrel."
Trump told his crowd that “I have done a phenomenal job” with the pandemic, pointing to the number of COVID-19 tests administered in the U.S. to date. But he also complained that more testing had revealed more cases of the disease caused by coronavirus.
“When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’ They test and they test,” Trump said.
He then imitated a public health official examining a patient, “If you have the sniffles, it’s a case!”
President Trump speaks in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Turning to the Black Lives Matter protests that have erupted since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Trump derided the demonstrators as “anarchists” and accused the media of hypocrisy for expressing concern over the health risks presented by his rallies but not the protests.
Health experts have warned that the virus spreads most easily in crowded indoor spaces.
On defense after weeks of falling poll numbers and a blizzard of negative media coverage, Trump spent more than 10 minutes attempting to explain why he had trouble descending a ramp following a graduation speech at West Point Military Academy. “It was like an ice skating rink,” Trump said of the ramp, adding that the leather soles of his dress shoes were slippery.
“I can’t fall with the fake news watching,” Trump said he told a general who helped guide him down the ramp.
Trump also addressed scrutiny of his difficulty bringing a bottle of water to his lips during the West Point speech, explaining that he had saluted so many of the cadets that his arm was tired.
“I don’t want to get water on the tie,” Trump added, the recounting of the ramp and the water bottle eating up more than 10 minutes of his speech.
Trump derided stories written that speculated he may suffer from Parkinson’s disease, but then quickly added that Joe Biden, his Democratic rival in the general election, wasn’t healthy or sharp enough for the job.
A supporter sits alone in the upper seats during President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Focusing his updated stump speech on Biden, who secured the Democratic presidential nomination since Trump held his last rally in March, Trump portrayed the former vice president as a “puppet” for the left wing of his party. The president also turned criticism of his own views on race into an attack on his rival.
“Joe Biden is a shameless hypocrite,” Trump said, for eulogizing past Senate colleagues who were supporters of segregation, adding, “America should not take lectures on racial justice from Joe Biden — sleepy Joe.”
But the president’s first big reelection rally since the coronavirus put an end to large public gatherings in America did not live up to the expectations his campaign had set for it in the weeks leading up to the event.
First, the Tulsa rally was originally scheduled for Friday, which is Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in America. With Black Lives Matter protests raging across the country over the killing of African-American George Floyd by Minneapolis police, that date immediately sparked an outcry that led Trump to push the rally back a day “out of respect for this Holiday.”
Supporters listen as President Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., Saturday. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Further adding to the public relations debacle, Trump bragged in a Thursday interview with the Wall Street Journal that he had “made Juneteenth very famous” by originally selecting June 19 as the date for his rally.
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-brags-he-made-junteenth-very-famous-despite-learning-about-it-just-last-week-171048516.html
Despite warnings from public health officials that large indoor gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic greatly increased the risks of transmission of COVID-19, the campaign pressed ahead with its plan to hold the rally on Saturday.
Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted that the campaign had received more than 1 million requests for tickets, even though those who said they wanted to attend the rally were forced to sign an electronic liability waiver acknowledging the risks of catching COVID-19.
During the past week, Trump staffers were reported to be hopeful that a large rally would help lift the president’s spirits after weeks of declining poll numbers and economic turmoil resulting from the pandemic.
But with just an hour remaining before the start of the event, it became clear that the crowd was nowhere near filling the 19,000-capacity BOK Arena. There were empty seats in the stands and just a fraction of floorspace was filled as Kimberly Guilfoyle, Diamond & Silk and Lara and Eric Trump began speaking. An outside space meant to hold an overflow crowd of tens of thousands of spectators was deserted, and the appearance of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence outside was canceled.
While those who did attend the rally (most of them not wearing masks) expressed their enthusiasm for the president’s message, there was no disguising the large swath of empty seats in the upper tier for what Trump’s team had billed as the kickoff to the general election campaign. Less than half-full, the rally could not be spun as anything other than a disappointment for the president — although the campaign tried.
The director of communications for the campaign, Tim Murtagh, blamed “protesters” who blocked access to the metal detectors outside the arena.
Parscale himself echoed that explanation for the tepid turnout, though there was no real sign in Tulsa of the missing attendees the campaign had anticipated.
Whether protesters, health concerns or a lack of enthusiasm kept Trump’s supporters from turning out in large numbers on Saturday, the spectacle of empty seats and an outdoor stage being dismantled as the rally began left viewers across the country with very different images than the campaign had hoped for. They were also unlikely to please the man the rally was meant to bolster.
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Fauci 'concerned' that George Floyd protests could lead to coronavirus spike, but has no comment on Trump rallies
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Why was George Floyd’s death the breaking point?
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 21, 2020 15:16:57 GMT
Zoomers Boast They Sabotaged Trump Rally Turnout With Fake Reservationswww.yahoo.com/huffpost/tik-tok-kpop-zoomer-trump-rally-tulsa-124646592.html
Mary Papenfuss
HuffPostJune 21, 2020, 5:46 AM MST
Members of Generation Z are claiming on social media that the “Zoomers” are at least partially responsible for a number of empty seats at President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night.
As part of a campaign organized on social media, they reserved masses of tickets to the rally that they had no intention of using.
The rally-busting movement involved young TikTok users and K-Pop fans around the nation, according to the prank participants who posted their (unused) ticket confirmations or commented (and celebrated) online after the rally.
Political strategist Steve Schmidt boasted on Twitter that his daughter and her friends in Park City, Utah, signed up for “hundreds” of free tickets to the rally they had absolutely no intention of attending. “You have been rolled by America’s teens,” Schmidt mocked Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale in a tweet.
Others responded to Schmidt’s tweets, saying they or their kids had also made fake ticket reservations.
The movement appears to have been launched by Mary Jo Laupp, a 51-year-old teacher from Iowa, who had worked on Pete Buttigieg’s campaign, CNN reported. She explained her idea in a TikTok video that had 700,000 likes by late Saturday.
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On Saturday night, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted at Parscale, saying he got “ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign” with fake reservations. The congresswoman also hailed “K-Pop allies,” saying: “We see and appreciate your contributions in the fight for justice, too.”
She added a “shout out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud.”
Trump’s campaign had heard of the plot, but may have misjudged its reach. Erin Perrine, principle deputy communications director for the Trump campaign, told CNN last week it was no big concern.
“Leftists do this all the time,” she said. “They think if they sign up for tickets that will leave empty seats. Not the case at all. Always way more ticket requests than seats available at a rally. All they are doing is giving us access to their contact information.”
Usually, tickets aren’t required for campaign rallies, the campaign told CNN. But the situation was different for the Tulsa event, because reservations included a legal disclaimer that participants wouldn’t sue Trump or the campaign if they contracted COVID-19 at the rally. And without a reservation, there would be no legal waiver for attendees to sign beforehand.
When videos from the event showed huge swathes of empty blue seats at the BOK Center where Trump spoke, which holds 19,000 people, TikTok users were thrilled.
“What did you guys do?” a stunned Laupp asked in a video Saturday after seeing the empty seats. “Like, seriously? Are you kidding me right now?”
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