In the hours before President Trump’s controversial rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma last week, his campaign directed workers to remove thousands of “Do Not Sit Here, Please!” stickers from seats, which were put in place by the venue to encourage social distancing, the Washington Post reported.
I’m shocked shocked shocked that there was even any social distancing stickers but not that they have removed it!
Before: Trump promised to pay legal fees for his base if they beat Trump protesters…
Now: Trump asked his base to sign an NDA holding him harmless if they get Covid…
Only the Maggoted-Brain-MAGAs would go to a risky rally exchanging their health and possibly their own/family’s safety/lives for a treasonous traitorous thug who broke the law(s) to become a Russian-Installed IMPeetus!
Jared and Miller or Pence and Barr?
The banality of evil.
I Am Not A Lawyer, but for some strange reason the word actionable pops into my mind…
P.S.: I seem to recall years ago reading that Tulsa OK had one of the largest per capita distributions of lawyers in the country.
Antifa!
So, MyPants, you and the campaign always abide by the advice of health departments?
The management of the BOK Center called the mayor’s office for some guidance and was told “Do whatever the president’s campaign says.”
And @nicole_lafond, they hadn’t placed 12,000 stickers, they’d ordered 12k stickers and were in the process of placing them on every other seat.
If someone goes through the trouble of illegally removing “do not sit here” stickers, then barely anyone shows up to not sit there, you just might be part of the Trump campaign. Which also means you probably have Covid.
Although the site’s resident “You can’t do that” legal expert will undoubtedly shoot it down, I think this is legally actionable, at the very least in civil court by those who attended the rally, but possibly also criminally. He willfully, brazenly and unnecessarily endangered the lives of others, just to boost the numbers and make the optics look better. Irreparable harm could and very well may have been done to these people, regardless of whatever agreement they signed upon entering, which is probably unenforceable anyway. What a horrible, horrible piece of shit he is.
And the evil of banality. Trump: We got both!
Yes, he is. Add to that all the republican enablers. My Sr senator in particular.
This stupidity almost certainly will be held by the courts to have invalidated the liability waivers signed by the rally participants.
The insurers will almost certainly refuse to cover claims, because of the deliberate action by the campaign to create the dangerous conditions In violation of federal guidelines.
So, it is fortunate that the campaign has deep pockets.
Trump et. al. are guilty of murder. Pure and simple, they don’t give a shit about human life. Trump needs to be convicted and marched before a firing squad.
That was my thought, too–they signed waivers but this must invalidate those waivers.
Perfect summation.
Not my own!
And these Trump campaign staffers who later tested positive for the virus spread their germs all over the stadium removing the stickers…just to insure everyone would be exposed in case the MAGA didn’t bring the bug inside themselves.
probably not. If anything, the Trump campaign can argue that by removing the stickers, they ensured that anyone who wanted to socially distance could do so. After all, the minimum six feet between attendees would not have been achieved with the “every other seat empty” strategy. And at the time the stickers were removed, the campaign already knew that turnout was going to be abysmal…
/sarcasm
#iamantifa
… staff at the BOK Center in downtown Tulsa had already placed nearly 12,000 distancing stickers on every other seat in the arena when the Trump campaign put a stop to the effort…
I thought that the BOK Center’s seating capacity was 19,000. So, how could the staff not have completed their effort long before placing 12,000 stickers on “every other seat?”
Ooh, I wonder if we’ll eventually find out that came directly from Parscale??