Six Trump Campaign Staffers Who Set Up Rally Get Infected With COVID-19

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign says six staff members helping set up for his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have tested positive for coronavirus.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1316075

They’re just walkin’ the walk, man! Promises made, promises kept!

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AHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

(Sorry, but in my book this falls under the category of “just deserts”…)

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It’s like Oprah: “Look under your seat! You get a virus! You get a virus!”

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Only if Oklahoma’s body of government had a way of shutting this whole thing down. Because it needs to be.

Apparently there’s no one in public health or any other department that can either overrule Trump or talk any sense into him. This is another indication of his unstable mental condition. No one in their right mind would push forward with the rally. Certainly not now.

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This administration has a bad habit of closing the barn doors after the horses escape. It’s a wonder there are any horses left.

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Trump: Leaving no stone un-turned to convert even the atheists to believe in Karma meted out by God.

May be that is why the evangelicals like him.

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If it was a Democrat rally, they would be all over it like white on rice.

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I hate to say this, in light of all of the unknowing showing up for this event, but there’s no way they sequestered every possible person.

That virus, in asymptomatic souls, will be traveling through this group all night. No way to avoid it.

Trump looks like a possible indirect exposure too.

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We can only hope.

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We all hope for the best.

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Infect
Regret
Deflect

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Great minds think alike.

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What’s the over and under on infections for this Klan rally? 300? Can we bet in Vegas on it yet?

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Let the Party Begin! Trump Supporters win the 2020 Darwin Award!

(and p.s. anyone who gets sick from someone there can sue the Trump campaign. The “liability waver” does not extent to 3rd parties infected by someone infected at the Trump rally)

P.S.S. Tulsa updated it’s figures just before the Volksgemeinschaft Rally Starts:

probably are 750-1000 active cases that are NOT diagnosed in Tulsa right now… This is not counting diseased people coming in from outside the county (which has 600K people).

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And pray for the worst…

@ichthus

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Six staffers out of how many?

It would be interesting to know just how bad things are on Team Trump.

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OT: Just breaking. Barr now says Trump has fired Berman, and that’s that. Somehow, I doubt that.

https://twitter.com/zoetillman/status/1274422844722642945?s=21

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Project
Deny
Lie
…The Republican Macarena!

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…and not enough confirmed cabinet members to invoke the 25th. (The most certain reason for “acting” cabinet secretaries)

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