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President plans to hold indoor rally at 19,000-seat arena on Saturday as coronavirus cases are rising in Tulsa Supporters of Donald Trump line up Friday to attend the Trump campaign’s Saturday rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images Top public health officials in Donald Trump’s coronavirus taskforce warned the US […] More
Oklahoma Tulsa still haunted by memory of white supremacist massacre on eve of Trump visit The president prepares to hold a rally in a city where, in 1921, up to 300 people were murdered in one of the most horrific acts of racist violence in US history A mural in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where in 1921 […] More
The president’s decision to hold his first rally since the coronavirus lockdown in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has ignited fresh controversy. The city was home to one of America’s worst ever acts of racial violence in 1921, a moment marked in recent Black Lives Matter protests, and Oklahoma is now seeing a new wave of coronavirus infections. […] More
Marc Lotter says some people should stay away, but defends Trump’s decision to hold indoor rally during pandemic Supporters of Donald Trump camp outside the venue for his upcoming rally in Tulsa on Wednesday. Photograph: Lawrence Bryant/Reuters A senior Trump campaign official has advised those at high risk of severe illness from Covid-19 not to […] More
Donald Trump has told an interviewer that he was informed about the Juneteenth holiday that commemorates the ending of slavery in the US by one of his own Secret Service agents, who is black. Trump recently caused anger and raised fears of major social unrest by scheduling his first public campaign rally since the coronavirus […] More
Oklahoma Planned visit puts spotlight on massacre, where 300 black people were killed in one of the worst single acts of race violence in the US Freeman Culver stands in front of a mural listing the names of businesses destroyed during the Tulsa race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP Donald Trump’s decision to […] More
State confirmed 591 new cases on Monday, a 7.7% increase Vice-president will attend Saturday’s election rally in Tulsa Mike Pence with Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters Shortly after the Trump campaign again insisted its first campaign rally since March would go ahead in Tulsa this weekend, it was reported […] More
The Tulsa World newspaper has backed the city’s top public health official in asking Donald Trump not to stage a controversial rally there on Saturday. The paper expressed concern both in terms of public health because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and race relations in light of national protests against police brutality. “We don’t know […] More
