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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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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
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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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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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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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 …
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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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.
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Trump's campaign was trolled by TikTok users in Tulsa — (CNN)President Donald Trump didn't fill his rally arena to the more than 19,000-person capacity Saturday night, despite bragging about 1 million RSVP's to his Tulsa, Oklahoma, return to the campaign trail.
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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.
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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Politico, The Colorado Sun and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Trump rallies in red-state America — and faces a sea of empty blue seats
Trump rallies in red-state America — and faces a sea of empty blue seats
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Jenny Stanton / Daily Mail:
Teens and K-pop fans sabotaged Trump's Tulsa rally by reserving tickets by the hundreds …
Teens and K-pop fans sabotaged Trump's Tulsa rally by reserving tickets by the hundreds …
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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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The Hill, Breitbart and MyNorthwest.com
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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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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Wall Street Journal:
Attorney General Barr, Known by Aides as ‘the Buffalo’, Scrutinized Over Firing of U.S. Attorney — Mr. Barr's critics accuse him of undermining the Justice Department's tradition of independence — WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr has earned a reputation for being so hard-charging within …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Barr's botched effort to remove a prosecutor who probed Trump allies
Barr's botched effort to remove a prosecutor who probed Trump allies
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CNN:
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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Justice News:
Statement Of Geoffrey S. Berman
Statement Of Geoffrey S. Berman
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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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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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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
DHS Secretary says U.S. is ‘doing a great job’ at reopening despite coronavirus spikes — WASHINGTON — Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Sunday that the U.S. is doing a “great job” at reopening amidst the coronavirus pandemic, even as rising caseloads across the country …
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump allies see a mounting threat: Biden's rising evangelical support — It was June 10, 2008. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama had gathered with dozens of evangelical leaders — many of them fixtures of the religious right — at the urging of campaign aides.
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Libor Jany / Star Tribune:
Hail of late-night gunfire in Uptown kills 1, wounds 11 — Dozens of shots fired in one of the city's most violent shootings in recent history. — TEXT SIZE — Gunmen unleashed a torrent of gunfire in a crowded Uptown block early Sunday in Minneapolis, killing one person and wounding 11 others …
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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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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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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Coronavirus spikes a concern, but no reason ‘to go into lockdown,’ Inglesby says — Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University, warned that events such as President Trump's campaign rally and ongoing protests over George Floyd's death could bring …
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The Hill
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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Nick Givas / Fox News:
Trump confirms new visa restrictions coming, sounds off on protesters in FNC interview
Trump confirms new visa restrictions coming, sounds off on protesters in FNC interview
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