Now, ALL Donald Trump campaign staff in the disastrous Tulsa rally are in quarantine for fear of contacting the eight who have already tested positive for coronavirus.
- Staff are asked to work remotely ‘as a precautionary measure’
- Secret service agents who worked at the President Trump rally in Tulsa on Saturday were ordered to self-quarantine.
- The White House dismissed concerns about the health risks at the rally before it happened.
- Attendees were asked to sign a waiver to attend, and only 6,200 showed up for the 19,000-seat venue.
- Six campaign staff members tested positive before the event.
- Two employees who worked there then tested positive
- “These staff members attended the demonstration but wore masks throughout the event,” said communications director Tim Murtaugh.
All campaign employees who attended President Donald Trump’s rally are asked to quarantine at home as a precaution after eight employees tested positive for COVID-19 before and after the event.
The Trump campaign revealed the decision to impose a quarantine to contain the possible spread of the coronavirus among those who worked on the event among their families and other members of the community.
The decision comes after the United States Secret Service ordered dozens of officers who worked on the event to be quarantined upon returning home.
All Trump campaign employees who attended the president’s rally in Tulsa on Saturday are asked to quarantine at home after eight of them tested positive for the coronavirus.
“As a precautionary measure, the staff who made the trip to Tulsa are working remotely, and will be screened and return to work at the office after that,” said Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh, reported CNN.
The White House rejected concerns about the health risks at the rally before it happened. They noted that masks and hand sanitizers would be available to attendees, but that masks would not be required.
“Look, I think we are confident that we can safely operate in Tulsa,” McEnany said before the event. “We are taking appropriate steps like hand sanitizing and temperature controls and masks on the door,” she said, bristling with repeated questions on the subject. She said that she herself would not wear a mask at the rally as a “personal choice”.
The Washington Post reported after the rally that the two Secret Service agents who tested positive before the event did not attend the rally, but had been in a planning meeting on Friday with other officers.
On Wednesday, it became known that dozens of Secret Service officers and agents who were in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday for President Donald Trump’s rally, were told to quarantine themselves.
Trump continued his series of travels when he flew to Wisconsin on Thursday to visit Fincantieri Marinette Marine.
“No positive COVID staff member or anyone in immediate contact will be at the rally today or close to assistants and elected officials,” Murtaugh said Saturday.
However, the Secret Service warned all employees working in Tulsa to isolate themselves after returning from the weekend trip.
Health problems exacerbate other problems that turned the event into a tactical failure.
Only 6,200 showed up for the 19,000-seat venue, as the area was experiencing an increase in coronavirus cases. The campaign had predicted record participation, and both Trump and campaign manager Brad Parscale promoted 1 million RSVPs online, only to later say that as many as 300,000 were bogus records from TikTok users and K-pop fans who decided to troll the Bell.
Trump dismissed critics of the event and said, “We had a good crowd.”
The campaign has not planned large-scale demonstrations in the immediate future. Trump flew to Phoenix for an indoor event at a megachurch on Wednesday and held an event at a Wisconsin factory on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Trump is in the key states of the battlefield he won, according to a new poll by the New York Times / Sienna.
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