Sam is right. The campaign was bragging about a million tickets. The venue seats 19,000, so even if TikTokers and K-Pop fans signed up for 90% of those free, unlimited tickets, a crowd 5x the venue’s capacity should’ve been jostling for a seat. Something here doesn’t add up.
Blood red OK should’ve had no problem filling that arena to the brim, so how do a million signups translate into a hair over 6,000 people actually showing up? I’m thinking Parscale lied about the number of signups as even die hard Republicans are getting sick and tired of Trump.
No sane campaign manager looks at a million signups for an event with a 25K person capacity (with overflow) and thinks “yup, this is totes legit, let me go brag about it on social media!” So the real question is if he lied to keep scamming Trump, or because he’s incompetent.
If it’s the latter, he should be fired. If it’s the former, he should be in jail for fraud and embezzlement. I’ll let the @ProjectLincoln expand on that...
Just to put the insane numbers Parscale threw out in perspective, consider that the population of Tulsa is 400K and the city has 17K hotel rooms. Even if every adult in the Tulsa metro area showed up, and every hotel room was booked for the rally, the math still wouldn't add up.
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