PROTEST/RALLY: “If you can join tens of thousands of people protesting in the streets, gamble in a casino, or burn down small businesses in riots, you can gather peacefully under the 1st Amendment to hear from the President of the United States.” -Tim Murtaugh, Trump campaign spokesperson, in a statement quoted by Timothy Bella, “‘Shameful, […]
Tag: Nevada rally
9/14/2020
CORONAVIRUS/RALLY: “Every rally turned [coronavirus] superspreader event Donald Trump decides to hold serves as another reminder to Americans that Trump still refuses to take this pandemic seriously and still doesn’t have a plan to stop it, even after nearly 200,000 deaths and untold economic damage.” -Mike Gwin, Biden campaign spokesperson, in a statement quoted by […]
9/14/2020
CORONAVIRUS/NEVADA/RALLY: “Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak blasted the president for flouting the state’s coronavirus restrictions by packing hundreds of supporters, many without masks, into a building… The indoor rally, which featured maskless supporters standing shoulder-to-shoulder inside the industrial facility, came as the United States surpassed 190,000 dead from the novel coronavirus. In Nevada, where Trump held […]
9/14/2020
RALLY: “President Donald Trump told the Review-Journal in an exclusive interview Sunday [Sep. 13, 2020] that he did not believe he was subject to Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s order limiting gatherings to 50 people when he addressed a crowd of thousands at an indoor rally in Henderson. The president blamed the Democratic governor for forcing […]
9/14/2020
CORONAVIRUS/RALLY: “Trump said in his interview with the Review-Journal that he is not afraid of getting the coronavirus from speaking at the indoor rally. ‘I’m on a stage and it’s very far away,’ Trump said. ‘And so I’m not at all concerned.’” -Debra J. Saunders, “In exclusive interview, Trump slams Sisolak, defends indoor rally,” reviewjournal.com, […]
9/13/2020
CORONAVIRUS/RALLY: “Tonight, President Donald Trump is taking reckless and selfish actions that are putting countless lives in danger here in Nevada. Despite reports from his own White House, despite local officials in Southern & Northern Nevada reiterating to the venues the existing [coronavirus] restrictions in State emergency directives, tonight, the President is knowingly packing thousands […]
9/13/2020
CORONAVIRUS/RALLY: “In open defiance of state regulations and his own administration’s pandemic health guidelines, President Donald Trump on Sunday [Sep. 13, 2020] hosted his first indoor rally since June, telling a packed, nearly mask-less Nevada crowd that the nation was ‘making the last turn’ in defeating the virus… There was no early mention from the […]