Did the Trump Campaign Hire Gig Actors to Inflate the Attendance at His Tulsa Rally?
Posted on AllSides June 30th, 2020
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A number of viral tweets, including some from Jon Cooper, the former chairman of the Democratic Coalition super PAC, claimed that attendance at President Trump’s Tulsa rally last Saturday had been inflated by gig actors and Trump staffers, and was significantly lower than the 6,200 counted by the Tulsa Fire Department:
Rumors of the Trump campaign seeking to hire minority actors and actresses to attend the rally originated after a Craigslist ad appeared offering to pay minorities to hold signs at an unspecified event in Tulsa the same day as...
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