Trump Campaign Claims Fire Marshal’s Attendance Count For Tulsa Rally Is “Wrong”

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Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale is catching a lot of heat over the abysmal attendance at the MAGA rally in Tulsa on Saturday night. Parscale, and even the president, suggested that one million people would attend the event, but that didn’t happen — and the campaign members just can’t face reality. Trump thinks size matters; it’s extremely important to him. So when Trump deplaned, he looked like a defeated man after only six thousand and two hundred people came to his party.

Trump 2020 communications director Tim Murtaugh spun the poor attendance on Fox’s Outnumbered Overtime Monday, saying that the fire marshal ’s count for attendance at Trump’s campaign rally in Oklahoma was “wrong.” We’re only surprised he didn’t say: “Un-million people showed up, and that’s an un-lot of people!”

According to the fire marshal, just under 6,200 scanned tickets were logged for the rally at the BOK Center that has the capacity for nineteen thousand visitors.

Fox News’ Melissa Francis asked Murtaugh, “How can you have a million people RSVP’d that they are going to come, as the campaign said, and only 6,200 show up? How do you explain that disparity in numbers?”

“First, we know how many people went through the magnetometers that are set up by the Secret Service, and it was 12,000 so the fire marshal is wrong,” Murtaugh said.

“A lot of kids come to Trump rallies,” he continued before blaming the media. “I’ve been to several dozen Trump rallies, and there are always children in attendance.”

“In Tulsa, there weren’t any children at all really. It’s because, we believe, they were frightened away by more than a week’s worth of 24-hour a day negative coverage telling people that the Trump rally was a dangerous place to be,” he said.

Murtaugh insisted again that “twelve thousand people still showed up,” and added, “I think shows a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for the president.”

“The fire marshal estimate is wrong against this deluge of negative scare tactics by the media because they don’t want President Trump back on the campaign trail,” he added. “They don’t want him holding rallies, and so they did everything that they possibly could to keep people away, and now they say that the crowd wasn’t big enough.”

But, we’ve all seen the photos of empty blue seats. Unless the campaign is going to claim that Trump supporters dressed as blue seats, then his claims just don’t hold water. Trump spoke for nearly fourteen minutes at the rally on the perils of navigating down a simple ramp. Trump fans could be seen yawning as he meandered on.

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