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.

[Alberta's Child]

My take is that a lot of people simply didn’t go after they heard about 800,000+ ticket requests.

I’ve been to three Trump rallies since the late summer of 2016. The closest one was more than two hours away. After I traveled to the last one only to get shut out after the venue filled, I have become much more judicious about my approach to these things. If there’s a rally and on the day of the event I can’t be sure I’ll get there at least three hours before it starts, I will not even leave home to travel there.

[P.O.E.]

My theory: With all the cameras (press & cell phones), who wants their picture to appear on Twitter, whatever.

Only to get a phone call from HR that they’ve been fired.

Or get doxxed in their homes.

[binreadin]

Read the article. Said phony requests didn’t figure into the numbers. Also it’s reported the Tulsa mayor had seats blocked off for social distancing and the Fire Marshal capped attendance at 50%. Not to mention the BLM supporters blocking entrance to the scanners.

[ASA Vet]

The important info there was.. "Biggest data haul"

The true purpose of tickets" to a free, first in line will get in event, was the collection of emails and phone numbers.

The trolls will now receive calls and emails begging for money to support the campaign of President Trump.

Cross referencing phone/email/physical address is a proved marketing task. So they can also expect lots of junk mail requests for a donation.

[USCG SimTech]

Smells of azz-covering, knowing they got lazy which got them stung.

[chrisnj]

Let them think there are few (or no) Trump supporters. So they relax and are over confident, only to be shocked at the huge voter turnout to give Trump a landslide victory!

[cymbeline]

“Millions watched live streaming”

Does that include people that watched for 30 seconds?

[Maris Crane]

AMEN, snarky!

A lot more pessimists here than I ever expected.

And pessimists gotta pessimate.

[Steven Tyler]

Korean Kollusion!!

[Steven Tyler]

Fake Media butthurt they will not be asked to carry any President Trump rallies, debates nor speeches to voters.

President Trump cut fake news media out of lucrative election year ad revenue

[Steven Tyler]

It’s a political dirty tricks event.

We are just getting started

[Steven Tyler]

Cross referencing phone/email/physical address is a proved marketing task. So they can also expect lots of junk mail requests for a donation.....

And you can strip out the liberal kids and sell that list to the Nigerians

[Mr. K]

let them think they did something

They are giggling like school girls in their mom’s basement I bet

[LouAvul]

I’m sure a few people decided not to show up once they heard those numbers

I'm in Tulsa. They also decided not to show up when they heard how long they were having to wait to get in, sign the release, etc.

They also heard about the Tulsa cops (once again, not doing their jobs) ignoring the Black Animals Brigade blocking entrances, etc.

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

I read a post by someone that was there and they said some of the screeners that were to take temps, etc., left their posts so people could not get screened. There were other factors preventing people from getting in the arena.

[Fresh Wind]

You?

[mountainfolk]

The Tulsa Trump rally was a preview of what other cities can expect, and make plans accordingly, when they host a Trump rally. Tulsa could have had the usual huge influx of money into their mercantile businesses, and a cheerful, happy, non threatening attendance of pro America citizens. Instead, the various organizations that foment and fund the destruction of whole areas of a city were appeased with the precautions taken by the Tulsa authorities to avoid the sacking of their city. The only way for a rally or other event to be approved, and attended, will now depend on how much it will take to buy off the communist sponsored mobs of looters and angry, so called protesters.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Brad Parscale is lying.

They actually built an outdoor overflow stage on the basis that they had gotten over 1 million ticket requests.

If you don’t acknowledge that you’re being sabotaged you won’t ever react and address it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“For the media to now celebrate the fear that they helped create is disgusting, but typical. And it makes us wonder why we bother credentialing media for events when they don’t do their full jobs as professionals.”

Who. What. When. Where. Why. How.

That’s all you need to report. We’ll take it from there, ya Socialist PUKES.

[grey_whiskers]

You're lying, trollboi.

There were huge paid protests outside the rally keeping people from being able to reach the metal detectors to get *in*.

Try reading FR threads and you'll find the pics.