YOU’LL BE SORRY
Don warns Okla. protesters ahead of rally
President Trump lobbed a veiled threat on Friday against anyone who plans to protest his controversial campaign rally in Oklahoma, charging demonstrators won’t be “treated” as nicely as they were during recent pickets in New York and other Democrat-led cities.
Painting all protesters with a broad brush, Trump wrote in a tweet that “it will be a much different scene” during Saturday’s “Make America Great Again” rally in Tulsa.
“Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” the president posted.
New York, Seattle and Minneapolis are among dozens of cities that have seen protests erupt over the police killing of George Floyd.
Trump’s fire-in-all-directions threat contrasts his claim that he supports “peaceful” protests.
But White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany insisted Trump was only putting “the anarchists” on notice, even though his tweet said otherwise. “He was meaning violent protesters,” McEnany said during a briefing at the
White House.
The Tulsa rally — Trump’s first major campaign event since March — has been the subject of much scrutiny as it’s being held amid a spike in coronavirus infections across the state. Tulsa County, Oklahoma’s second-most populous, continued to set the pace for the state’s new cases with 125 on Friday, taking its total to 2,070. It is the first Oklahoma county to break 2,000 cases. Oklahoma County, the state’s most populous, reported 85 new cases, taking its case total to 1,946.