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TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally — Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump's rally in Tulsa, Okla.? — President Trump's campaign promised huge crowds at his rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, but it failed to deliver.
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Turnout At Trump's Tulsa Rally Was Just Under 6,200-A Fraction Of The Venue's 19,200 Capacity — While President Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday was pitched as an over-subscribed event, with Trump campaign staffers touting ticket registrations over a million …
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Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Anti-Trump protesters ‘interfere’ with president's rally, force cancellation of outdoor speeches — The Trump campaign canceled planned outdoor speeches by President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at their comeback rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night after protesters “interfered” …
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CNN:
Sick staff and empty seats: How Trump's triumphant return to the campaign trail went from bad to worse — (CNN)By the time President Donald Trump was gliding in his helicopter toward Joint Base Andrews on Saturday, destined for what he'd once hoped would be a triumphant packed-to-the-rafters return …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Make Arenas Empty Again — In Tulsa, the Trump campaign transitions to farce. — On Saturday afternoon there was a palpable sense of dread in the news, as President Trump was building up to a rally that was poised to be a campaign event that was unique in its depravity.
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Trump stokes culture wars, but low turnout mars Tulsa campaign rally — President Donald Trump's first campaign rally in three months drew far fewer attendees than had been anticipated, an embarrassing blunder for a candidate who places an unusually high value on crowd sizes.
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Tulsa fire department says just under 6,200 people attended Trump rally — Just under 6,200 people attended President Trump's rally in Tulsa Saturday, well below the BOK Center's total capacity of 19,200, a public information officer for the Tulsa Fire Department told Forbes Sunday.
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's deflating Tulsa turnout reveals a deeper problem for him — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was supposed to get a boost Saturday from his first campaign rally since late February. Instead, he got a bust. — After bragging earlier in the week that more than 1 million people …
Washington Post:
Trump rallies in red-state America — and faces a sea of empty blue seats — He threatened violence against protesters, endangered his supporters by flouting health recommendations and endured a 110-day, coronavirus-induced dry spell, but when President Trump finally stepped back onto …
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
Trump's rally looked like his vision of America. Limited and pitiless. — The president paused for dramatic effect before he walked onstage at his Tulsa rally. He was silhouetted under a blue and white “Make America Great Again” banner and against an American flag.
Jenny Stanton / Daily Mail:
Teens and K-pop fans sabotaged Trump's Tulsa rally by reserving tickets by the hundreds …
Phillip Nieto / Mediaite:
Trump Campaign Cancels Plans to Address ‘Overflow Crowd’ Because Not Enough People Showed Up
Trump Campaign Cancels Plans to Address ‘Overflow Crowd’ Because Not Enough People Showed Up
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Washington Post:
After campaign boasting, a smaller-than-expected crowd shows up for Trump's Tulsa rally
After campaign boasting, a smaller-than-expected crowd shows up for Trump's Tulsa rally
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Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
Trump supporters, protesters face off outside Oklahoma rally
Trump supporters, protesters face off outside Oklahoma rally
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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Trump returns to 2020 campaign trail with Tulsa rally
Trump returns to 2020 campaign trail with Tulsa rally
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New York Times:
Trump Fires Berman at S.D.N.Y. After Tensions Over Inquiries — The president's move heightened criticism that he was purging his administration of officials whose independence could be a threat to his re-election. — President Trump on Saturday fired the federal prosecutor whose office put …
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Geoffrey Berman is leaving office immediately after standoff with Trump administration
Geoffrey Berman is leaving office immediately after standoff with Trump administration
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Statement Of Geoffrey S. Berman
Statement Of Geoffrey S. Berman
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Washington Post:
Police enter Seattle cop-free zone after shooting kills a 19-year-old, critically injures a man — SEATTLE — Derrek Jones rolled out of his tent Friday morning at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest — or CHOP — to find a yoga class for people of color underway in the park.
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Andy Ngo / New York Post:
My terrifying five-day stay inside Seattle's cop-free CHAZ
My terrifying five-day stay inside Seattle's cop-free CHAZ
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Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Hired 3,000 Workers for Contact Tracing. It's Not Going Well. — The program is crucial to the next phase of reopening, which begins on Monday. But workers have not had much success in getting information from people who test positive. — New York City's ambitious contact-tracing program …
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Eric Trump Calls Black Lives Matter Protesters ‘Animals’ at Tulsa Rally — 'THIS ISN'T AMERICA' — Before his father took the stage for his campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma the night after the Juneteenth holiday, Eric Trump used his speech in front of the half-filled arena to call Black Lives Matter protesters “animals.”
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Trump's Tulsa Rally Fizzles as Seats Go Empty
Trump's Tulsa Rally Fizzles as Seats Go Empty
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Chris White / New York Post:
Muhammad Ali's son says dad would have hated ‘racist’ Black Lives Matter
Muhammad Ali's son says dad would have hated ‘racist’ Black Lives Matter
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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Everything you need to know about John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser — Bolton talked exclusively to ABC about his new book on his White House tenure. — John Bolton, President Donald Trump's third and longest-serving national security adviser, is speaking …
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New York Times:
How Do the Police Actually Spend Their Time? — A review of publicly available data in three areas reveals that much of an officer's job revolves around handling routine calls rather than violent crime. — What share of policing is devoted to handling violent crime? Perhaps not as much as you might think.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Good Cops, Bad Cops — On Father's Day, I want to tell my dad something I neglected to mention. — I never told my father I was proud of him. — I grew up in the '60s, another era filled with tears and tear gas and violent clashes about race and class.
Paul Sims / The US Sun:
LAYING LOW Jeffrey Epstein's ‘madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell hiding out in luxury Paris flat minutes from pedophile's $8.6m pad — FUGITIVE socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been hiding out in a sprawling Paris apartment close to Jeffrey Epstein's $8.6million pedo pad, we can reveal.
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