2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I love the great State of North Carolina. I was looking forward to having our Republican National Convention there. That was going to be incredible. But unfortunately, your Governor, Roy Cooper decided to give away potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, made it impossible for us to go…
He actually told me the most you can have meeting — we have a 19,000-seat center as you know, and he said the most you can have is 10 people because that’s what the [coronavirus] rules are, 10 people.
He actually said that. I don’t know. I guess he meant it. He thought he could start negotiating from there but he didn’t really want to negotiate.”
-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Virtual North Carolina Tele-Rally – July 19, 2020,” factba.se, July 19, 2020