Brad Parscale Threatens to Revoke Rally Media Credentials
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By Ken MeyerJun 21st, 2020, 1:12 pm 
Photo via Lincoln Project on Twitter.
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Donald Trump's re-election campaign manager, Brad Parscale , threatened to block reporters from the president's future rallies following coverage on the low turnout they saw in Tulsa on Saturday night.
In the days leading up to the president's rally in Oklahoma, the Trump campaign bragged about the high levels of RSVPs they was seeing, which led to them setting up an "overflow" event that was supposed to happen before the official rally. That overflow rally ended up getting scrapped, and even when the Trump campaign beckoned people into the Bank of Oklahoma Center to fill the empty spaces, Trump's speech ended up happening before a crowd well underneath the venue capacity.
Tulsa Fire Dept tells ABC News "just shy of 6,200" people attended President Trump's rally on Saturday. This official count is from the Fire Marshall who was on scene at the event per safety requirements, @ScottWithersABC reports. The BOK Center holds 19,199 ppl at full capacity.
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) June 21, 2020
While the low turnout might be explained by continued public fears over the coronavirus pandemic, a number ofreports have suggested that the Trump campaign might've been duped as to the level of interest there was for the rally. The New York Times reported that thousands of K-pop fans and TikTok users launched a covert online ploy to put in RSVP registrations for rally tickets, just to troll the campaign by not showing up.
On Sunday, Parscale released a statement blasting "leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance." He then turned on reporters who "behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade," and then insisted that the campaign has ways to weed out bogus RSVPs.
These phony ticket requests never factor into our thinking. What makes this lame attempt at hacking our events even more foolish is the fact that every rally is general admission - entry is on a first-come-first-served basis and prior registration is not required. The fact is that a week's worth of the fake news media warning people away from the rally because of COVID and protestors, coupled with recent images of American cities on fire, had a real impact on people bringing their families and children to the rally.
Parscale concluded by saying "for the media to now celebrate the fear that they helped create is disgusting, but typical. And it makes us wonder why we bother credentialing media for events when they don't do their full jobs as professionals."
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It's official. The stadium was one third full when Trump made his speech.
Pure humiliation.
Of course, in Trump style, he and his campaign are blaming everyone else but themselves. Brad Parscale is blaming "leftists". He should join NT, his theories would fit right in here.
Whatever they do, the Trumpsters must keep following the O'Donnell Republican playbook to support Trump's reelection. BLAME CHINA !!! Their next story will be that Xi Jinping sent the People's Liberation Army to block the entrances.
Pretty sure the idea is already being tested in focus groups.
The willing dupes were Trump, Parscale, and the rest of the campaign. "Look how many people want tickets! A yuuge number! The stadium will be bigly full!"
"No, don't show all those empty blue chairs! Fake news!"
Now they want to ban reporters who dont toe the "Trump" line as to spin. . It may not be full blown authoritarianism, but it's in the ball park.
They've always wanted to. No regard for the First Amendment at all. Very unpatriotic.
They already exposed his protesters blocked the entrances lie.
All a reporter would have to do is don a disguise (fake mustache, Trump shirt, and a MAGA hat) and go to one of the rallies. The media didn't create anything. It is all on Trump and his swamp.
He is not helping his case any. If it is first come first serve general admission, still not what they were bragging about.
I don't see them stopping press. What is the saying, any press is good press.
Hell it gave donald a twenty minute talk on him walking down a ramp.
Let the good times roll...
Notice how Parscale says the media doesnt do "their full jobs". Their "full" job, according to the White House , is to give Trump good coverage. Trump spent a huge portion of his speech last night complaining that he doesnt get good media coverage. To Trump and his lackeys, the media should be reporting how great he is and little else. This is not a banana republic ....yet.
They want state media. They picked the wrong country.
After the fiasco in Tulsa Parscale may not have a job come Monday.
Very lucrative while it lasted.
Very lucrative, lol
Trump bought himself a painting of himself using campaign funds so this guy figures why not get in on this cash cow.
You do realize that is pay for a job he is doing? He isn't stealing anything. His pay is separate from that being used for campaign events.
He might want to start saving his money after the Tulsa train wreck. He seems to have very expensive tastes, and Trump doesn't tolerate being made a fool of by others.
Lol, no one makes a fool of Trump, he does entirely on his own and punishes those around him for not being able to stop him from being a dip shit.
That canal-front mansion requires a 50' yacht - will he have to wait until next week for enough money to buy one?
The IRS needs to investigate this clown.
"How dare you get me fired by, you know, taking pictures and video of the event and shit? Who cares if I invited you to do EXACTLY that!"