Trump Campaign Removed Thousands Of Social Distancing Stickers Before Tulsa Rally

TULSA, OKLAHOMA - JUNE 20: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Trump is holding his first political rally since the start of the coronavirus pa... TULSA, OKLAHOMA - JUNE 20: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Trump is holding his first political rally since the start of the coronavirus pandemic at the BOK Center today while infection rates in the state of Oklahoma continue to rise. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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In the hours before President Trump’s controversial rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma last week, his campaign directed workers to remove thousands of “Do Not Sit Here, Please!” stickers from seats, which were put in place by the venue to encourage social distancing, the Washington Post reported. 

According to video and photos obtained by the Post and a person familiar with the matter, staff at the BOK Center in downtown Tulsa had already placed nearly 12,000 distancing stickers on every other seat in the arena when the Trump campaign put a stop to the effort. Trump campaign staffers then reportedly started removing the stickers from the chairs themselves.

The Post obtained a video that reportedly showed two unidentified men pulling the stickers off the seats ahead of the rally.

While there were thousands of empty seats at Trump’s June 20 rally, social distancing efforts were largely ignored during the event, which was billed as a masks-optional affair.

Trump was widely criticized for holding such a large rally amid the pandemic. Since the event, several staffers and even Secret Service agents have tested positive for COVID-19.

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  1. I’m shocked shocked shocked that there was even any social distancing stickers but not that they have removed it!

    Before: Trump promised to pay legal fees for his base if they beat Trump protesters…

    Now: Trump asked his base to sign an NDA holding him harmless if they get Covid…

    Only the Maggoted-Brain-MAGAs would go to a risky rally exchanging their health and possibly their own/family’s safety/lives for a treasonous traitorous thug who broke the law(s) to become a Russian-Installed IMPeetus!

  2. Jared and Miller or Pence and Barr?

  3. Avatar for kiwi kiwi says:

    The banality of evil.

  4. I Am Not A Lawyer, but for some strange reason the word actionable pops into my mind…

    P.S.: I seem to recall years ago reading that Tulsa OK had one of the largest per capita distributions of lawyers in the country.

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