In Tulsa, DonaldTrump's campaign undermined efforts to protect attendees from COVID-19, while making them sign waivers to limit its own liability.
. ASM has offered to test all of its staff on Saturday, regardless if they worked the rally. So far there have been no reports of staff members exhibiting symptoms.
Trump in Tulsa was not Katrina in New Orleans, but the two shared some common themes -- a President in denial, an unprecedented historical disaster in the making and a recalcitrant mayor in Bynum, who initially supported the rally but sought to shift part of the blame after assessments estimated 100,000 people would descend on Tulsa. Worried about the potential for civil unrest and rioting, Bynum enacted a curfew “following consultation with the U.S.
By that point, news of the event had been picked up by the national media, with outlets seizing upon a growing number of COVID-19 cases in the city. Around the same time, ASM was seeking authorization that the rally complied with state guidelines. The next morning, Gov.formally acknowledged in a letter that the Trump campaign could lawfully stage a rally at full capacity and noted the event was “consistent with the guidance for Oklahoma’s Open Up and Recover Safely plan.”
To Thornton, the order from the governor’s office -- which wrote the guidelines shutting down and reopening the state in response to the COVID-19 crisis -- coupled with the Supreme Court order, was an explicit indication that the building had a legal obligation to allow the Trump campaign to stage a full capacity rally at the BOK Center.
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