Trump Campaign Rejects Claim That TikTok, K-Pop Fans Sabotaged Tulsa Rally

Epoch Times ^ | 06/21/2020 | Jack Phillips

[SeekAndFind]

President Donald Trump’s campaign said that media organizations are spreading false narratives about Trump’s rally in Oklahoma on Saturday after a smaller-than-expected crowd of people turned up, saying that the CCP virus and protesters were the reason why fewer attended.

“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,” campaign manager Brad Parscale told Fox News on Sunday. “Reporters who wrote gleefully about TikTok and K-Pop [Korean pop music] fans—without contacting the campaign for comment—behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade.”

Parscale continued, “Registering for a rally means you’ve RSVPed with a cellphone number and we constantly weed 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. 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.”

It came after Twitter users claimed they sabotaged Trump’s rally by allegedly reserving scores of tickets online before failing to show up. The claims were highlighted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who said that teens on the Chinese social media app TikTok and fans of K-pop were responsible for the lower turnout.

President Donald Trump points at the crowd as he enters his first re-election campaign rally in several months in the midst of the CCP virus outbreak, at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., on June 20, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

Media outlets repeatedly highlighted the attendance by publishing photos of empty seats at the top of the auditorium.

[nutmeg]

You don’t need a ticket or a bar code. It’s first come first serve. The tickets are just to have an idea of how well the rally will be attended and increase Trump’s data base. The metal detector showed 12 K scanned. I think there were more because the people on the floor account for a lot of empty seats.

The last time we went to an actual Trump rally was on 2/2/16 in Milton, New Hampshire. I thought I had to turn in my ticket (printed page from Eventbrite or similar site) at the door. That was of course 4 years ago, so things may have changed.

I've read several articles that said 6,200 were scanned through the metal detectors, but -- I think the number probably was around 12,000, based on what it looked like on TV. I don't know why this 6,200 number keeps coming up.

Oh yeah and the Biden event had 4 chairs, two of which were empty.

I know... saw that, ROTFL!! :-D

[kaehurowing]

You want K-pop? You got K-pop.

“It’s Party Time” (Girls’ Generation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQzu7NYlZNQ

What happens when you take Korea’s most beautiful women and teach them to sing and dance.

Trump should actually use this at his next rally. It will be a record breaker for sure.

Bonus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OrCA1OInoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVCubhQ454c

[dfwgator]

“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” - Yogi Berra

[SmokingJoe]

1. Metal detector count had 12,000 inside the hall for the rally.
2. The first of all declared a state of emergency then a curfew.
3. Those who had been in line were asked to leave after the curfew was declared. Some may have gonr home and never returned.
4. Antifa/BLM thugs blocked off at least one of the main entrances to the hall preventing thousands from getting in.
5. It's perfectly reasonable to assume that quite a few of those who had booked tickets decided to stay home when:
a) The state of emergency and curfew were declared
b) They saw the commotion/disruption from the Antifa/BLM thugs.

Going forward, the campaign is going to have to ro better on the security front so rally attendees can safely attend without having to go through Antifa / BLM terrorists.
Irrespective of all that, the rally was spectacular. it will probably end up with more online views than any political rally in recent times. That is what counts.

[Helicondelta]

“It was just one rally.”

I bet these TikTok kids will also register for mail-in ballots.

[FreeperCell]

We have no fear, no fear, no fear.

[elbook]

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With the lefty media campaign gin’ing up a crisis and having overblown casualty claims and warnings day and night, many people are CAUTIOUS if not afraid.

Heck, you see people get in a line and many people back away flinching when already 6 feet away. People are still in lockdown across the country.

When is the next Rally.

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[Ouchthatonehurt]

K-Pop…seriously?
South Korea loves Trump.

[elbook]

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Meanwhile a ventriloquist dummy Biden is giving recorded ‘Ralleys’ in HIS BASEMENT with NO AUDIENCE

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[TChad]

“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” - Yogi Berra

That can happen.

I attended the 1984 Olympics in L.A. I had never seen so many empty parking spaces in usually-packed Westwood. People stayed away to avoid the crowds.

[FreeperCell]

We successfully held a Trump rally. Nothing else needs to be said. And we will do it over and over.

[LouieFisk]

Yup. Multiple reasons, the WH has to play it’s cards better from here on. According to the story:

“some Trump supporters told Fox News that news reports of expected high turnout had discouraged them from attending.
“I tried all week to get tickets to the Trump Rally and could’t get the campaign to respond to my applications. I lived within minutes of Tulsa,” Jackie York of Okemah, Okla., told Fox News via email. “When they started showing evening news clips showing people camping outside for rally, I decided not to fight the ‘hundreds of thousands’ of people I assumed would be fighting to go in. We had no tickets. My pastor also wanted to go, but couldn’t get tickets online.”

The WH must have believed the overwhelming demand for a million plus tickets was legit or it would not have set up the outside venue to handle the expected overflow crowds. Unforced error.

[dp0622]

I thought it was great and 15,000 was still a lot.

But people are allowed to bitch.

Don’t read those posts if they bother you so much.

[Coronal]

According to the Tulsa Fire Marshal the total crowd was just under 6200.

[LouieFisk]

“I now cannot read entire articles from the Epoch Times until I open an account with them.”
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Odd. No problem here. Are you using a phone? If nothing else try a quite similar news site:
https://www.ntd.com/news

[After Hours]

Thanks for schooling me on K Pop ! I had no idea.

Yes, the young women are very beautiful. Style, fashion, make up and talent. Everything to appeal/attract the young ones.

[sport]

Thanks for the information.

[CJ Wolf]

Kpop attacks are not new, don’t deny it or think it is new. They are simply and I say simply easy Chinese kiddie scripts, hactivisim if you will, it wouldn’t take more then several of Saddams playstations to enable that attack. #freetibet #FreeHK #freeChina #Chinavirus #obvious.

[VideoDoctor]

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[VideoDoctor]

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