Some 12,000 'Do Not Sit Here' stickers to help protect people attending from COVID-19 were removed by the campaign, according to arena management.
Both Billboard and the Post viewed video showing Trump campaign staffers peeling off stickers from the seats.6,200 rally tickets were scanned
for a space that can hold 19,000 people. Instead, vast swaths of seats were left empty as people jammed together in seats closest to the podium. The stickers were part of ASM Global’s new mandatory “VenueShield” protocol aimed at helping protect people from COVID-19 at the 325 sites it manages. But Thornton told Billboard that ASM had no legal authority to stop the event, which was approved by Gov. Kevin Stitt and Tulsa’s Republican mayor, G.T. Bynum.
The Trump campaign ignored ASM’s request to file a COVID-19 safety plan for the rally, Billboard reported — even though Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, had reportedly warned the White House that the
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