Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum (R) rescinded a curfew that he had issued on Thursday to prevent unrest around President Trump’s rally scheduled in the city’s downtown area on Saturday.
“Last night, I enacted a curfew at the request of Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin, following consultation with the United States Secret Service based on intelligence they had received,” Bynum said in a statement. “Today, we were told the curfew is no longer necessary so I am rescinding it.”
The curfew, however, while initially ordered to thwart potential agitators and people who sought to undermine the event, was also seen at least by Trump as an impediment to rally-goers — many of whom police said would not be exempt from potential arrest for camping in a perimeter around the 19,000-seat event space under city curfew.
Yes, he’s itching for violence. Maybe he wants an excuse to impose martial law (which, you just know, he thinks is spelled ‘marshall law’). Or maybe he just enjoys it, like Hedley Lamarr with his statuette. Or maybe both. Yeah, both.
This is the worst possible person doing the worst thing in the worst place at the worst possible time in our history, and no one raises a hand to stop him. His event has the potential to immediately harm many people and has possible long term effects of spreading disease and death unnecessarily to hundreds, maybe thousands, of people and no one raises a hand to stop him.
A big reason why this rally is happening tomorrow: Trump aides want to get him out of the funk he’s been in for weeks. “I guarantee you after Saturday, if everything goes well, he’s going to be in a much better mood,” a Trump political adviser told m