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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 …
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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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.
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.
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Chris Wallace grills Trump campaign adviser on Tulsa rally: “The arena was empty”
Chris Wallace grills Trump campaign adviser on Tulsa rally: “The arena was empty”
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Trump stokes culture wars, but low turnout mars Tulsa campaign rally
Trump stokes culture wars, but low turnout mars Tulsa campaign rally
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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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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Trump cranks up culture war rhetoric at Tulsa arena that was far from sold out
Trump cranks up culture war rhetoric at Tulsa arena that was far from sold out
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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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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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Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
Trump supporters, protesters face off outside Oklahoma rally
Trump supporters, protesters face off outside Oklahoma rally
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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 — Whatever one thinks of Attorney General William P. Barr, even his detractors have generally agreed on something: He's a shrewd, calculating political operator. — The events of this weekend would sure seem to undermine that image.
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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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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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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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Sareen Habeshian / KTLA:
Black Lives Matter sign in Thousand Oaks vandalized by employees of Ventura County sheriff's and DA's office — A Black Lives Matter sign in Thousand Oaks was vandalized on at least three separate occasions, including by a sheriff's office employee and a district attorney's office employee, officials said Saturday.
Hannah Allam / NPR:
Vehicle Attacks Rise As Extremists Target Protesters — Right-wing extremists are turning cars into weapons, with reports of 50 vehicle-ramming incidents since protests against police violence erupted nationwide in late May. — At least 18 are categorized as deliberate attacks …
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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