Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said it wasn’t the online trolls that was responsible for the rally only having 6,200 in attendance, arguing that they regularly weed out “bogus numbers”:
POLITICO – President Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, on Sunday denied that anti-Trump organizers on social media were to blame for the lower-than-expected rally turnout on Saturday in Tulsa, Okla.
“Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work,” Parscale said in a statement.
News outlets, including CNN and The New York Times, reported claims by social media users on TikTok and Korean pop music fans that they signed up for potentially hundreds of thousands of rally tickets online though they had no intention of attending.
Parscale said the reporters who shared the news had “behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade.”
Trump’s campaign manager said the usual online RSVP process for rallies involves weeding out “bogus numbers, as we did with tens of thousands at the Tulsa rally, in calculating our possible attendee pool. These phony ticket requests never factor into our thinking.”
Both Democrats and the media hate Trump so much that they love the idea that people might have sabotaged the rally.
But Parscale said it had far more to do with fake news warnings about catching COVID at the rally and all the protests around the country…
Tulsa’s Fire Department confirmed on Sunday that the total number of attendees was less than 6,200.
Parscale said ongoing protests and fears about spreading Covid-19 had deterred people from attending the rally.
“The fact is that a week’s worth of the fake news media warning people away from the rally because of COVID and protesters, coupled with recent images of American cities on fire, had a real impact on people bringing their families and children to the rally,” Parscale said.
Honestly that makes a lot of sense to me, considering all that we’ve seen going on lately and the fact that people might not feel comfortable coming to a place where they know there are going to be protests. As well as people still fearing that they might catch COVID.