这是应该的伟大的回报总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普参加周六晚上的竞选活动大型集会“在俄克拉荷马州的塔尔萨。总统承诺没有空座位，他的竞选团队说他们收到了超过一百万张票的申请。
相反，当空军一号在当地时间下午5:51着陆时，工作人员面临着三大问题:可容纳近20，000名支持者的场馆只有三分之一满由于出席人数少，在竞技场外设立的溢出空间正在被拆除，一些已经在塔尔萨的关键人员无法提供帮助，因为他们被隔离了检测出阳性后冠状病毒。
自从五年前进入总统政坛以来，特朗普经常吹嘘自己吸引大量人群的能力。事实上，人群规模对他来说是如此重要，以至于特朗普让他的第一任新闻秘书在他的政府的第一次白宫简报中为他就职典礼的人群规模辩护。
2020年6月20日，在俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨的博克中心，一名支持者坐在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的竞选集会上。赢得麦克纳米/盖蒂图像
在应对冠状病毒大流行和未能解决乔治·弗洛伊德(George Floyd)被杀(而非加剧种族分歧)之间存在失误的情况下，塔尔萨之行是许多助手所希望的特朗普2020年竞选活动开始时的必要重置，正如一些人所描述的那样。
然而，在6月20日，一个纪念奴隶制终结的日子，被首次计划之后，总统被迫在许多人叫屈之后改变了日期。
相反，司法部长比尔·巴尔周五晚上突然解雇杰弗里·伯曼决定了这个周末现在-前美国律师对于纽约南区来说，起初--拒绝下台。周六下午，特朗普在离开白宫时告诉记者，他“没有参与”这个决定，尽管几分钟前，巴尔在一封信中说，总统本人已经解雇了他。
新:主席。特朗普声称他“没有参与”农业公司威廉·巴尔提出的罢免SDNY律师杰弗里·伯曼的请求:“这完全取决于司法部长...那是他的部门，不是我的部门。”https://t.co/S8vHQ8lHPUpic.twitter.com/Q9GDsdpfKZ
——美国广播公司新闻政治(@美国广播公司政治)2020年6月20日
“嗯，这是一个很好的开始，”总统的一名助手在评论后说。
它并没有就此止步。多位消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，在飞往塔尔萨的空军一号上，特朗普得知当天早些时候他的竞选团队的六名成员的冠状病毒检测呈阳性的消息后，非常愤怒。在塔尔萨的地面上，随着消息的传播，一些员工变得越来越心烦意乱，他们的一些同事感染了病毒，正在被转移到隔离区。周一，竞选团队证实，另外两名参加集会的竞选团队成员的冠状病毒检测呈阳性。
该活动称，工作人员在整个活动期间都在场，并且“戴着面具”
2020年6月20日，在俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨的博克中心，唐纳德·特朗普总统在冠状病毒病(COVID-19)爆发期间，挥舞着拳头，开始了他几个月来的首次竞选集会。莉亚·米利斯/路透社
多位消息人士称，在集会上，总统在演讲前在后台斥责助手，要求回答投票率低的问题，集会是如何组织的，为什么竞技场没有不同的配置。
总统的助手们很快将矛头指向特朗普的竞选经理布拉德·帕斯凯尔(Brad Parscale)，数月来，他因成功竞选总统的能力而饱受批评。关于他即将被淘汰的谣言再次出现，一些人很快预测塔尔萨集会的失败将是最后一击。
资深竞选人员称当晚是“自己造成的伤害”，并批评帕斯凯尔夸大了之前从未见过的喧闹人群和投票人数。
高级别竞选消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，很少有人理解去塔尔萨的决定，相反，许多人认为，把目标对准总统需要赢得连任的战场州，如佛罗里达州或亚利桑那州，会更明智。
特朗普的一名竞选助手称，这次集会是一次“巨大的失败”，正值总统团队比以往任何时候都更需要胜利之际，民调数字不断下降，预计将获得民主党提名的乔·拜登(Joe Biden)在5月份首次超过了特朗普的竞选团队和共和党全国委员会。
另一名助手说，把100万张票的“荒谬”申请号码公布出去是“自杀”
在幕后，随着投票率将远低于预期变得越来越明显，竞选助手们争先恐后地想出一个辩护理由，最终锁定显示该地区附近抗议活动的社交媒体帖子，并指责总统熟悉和喜爱的目标:媒体。
2020年6月20日晚些时候，在俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨的博克中心，黑人生命攸关抗议者在唐纳德·特朗普总统举行的竞选集会入口处示威布兰登·斯米洛夫斯基/法新社
“我已经看了几个星期的假新闻，一切都是负面的。“不要走，不要来，不要做任何事情，”特朗普在他的集会演讲的顶部说道你是战士，谢谢你，”他补充道，感谢那些出席的人。
白宫新闻秘书凯丽·麦克纳尼周一反驳了关于总统对集会人群的规模感到恼火的报道，并表示他对这一事件“非常满意”。
“总统对这次集会非常满意。我和他在一起。我不得不说，这些媒体报道说他在飞机上不知何故大发雷霆——这是没有事实根据的。我在去那里的路上和他在海军一号上，之后在海军一号上。他对集会进行得非常非常满意，”麦克纳尼在周一的新闻发布会上说。
帕卡斯的工作岌岌可危，2016年特朗普的竞选经理科里·勒万多维斯基(Corey Lewandowski)——他也是总统连任竞选的现任顾问——罕见地抨击了总统现任的政治团队，称执行塔尔萨集会是一个“根本性的错误”
“我认为犯了一个根本性的错误。周一，在接受《今日新罕布什尔》电台节目杰克·希思的采访时，勒万多维斯基说:“在政治上，过度承诺和承诺不足是你可能犯的最大错误。”。
Lewandowski说，当他在2016年担任竞选经理时，“我们从来没有做过这样的事情，”他补充说，团队需要“回去重新评估人们得到这些票的系统，并确定它们是否真实。”
After Trump's dismal return rally, finger pointing, blame game intensifies
It was supposed to bethe great returnfor PresidentDonald Trumpto the campaign trail Saturday night with a "mega rally" in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The president promised no empty seats and his campaign said they received more than one million ticket requests.
Instead, as Air Force One touched down at 5:51pm local time, staffers were faced withthree massive problems: the venue that could hold nearly 20,000 supporterswas only a third full, the overflow space set up outside the arena was in the process of being dismantled due to low attendance numbers and some key personnel who were already in Tulsa were unable to help becausethey were in quarantineafter testing positive for thecoronavirus.
Since he entered presidential politics five years ago, Trump often brags about his ability to attract massive crowds. In fact, crowd size is so important to him, that Trump made it the mission of his first press secretary to defend the size of his inauguration crowd in the very first White House briefing of his administration.
With missteps between the response to the coronavirus pandemic and the failure to address the killing of George Floyd -- instead stoking racial divides -- the trip to Tulsa was what many aides hoped would be a needed reset for Trump -- the 2020 campaign kickoff, as some described.
Yet after first being planned on Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery, the president was forced to change the date after many cried foul.
The weekend was instead dictated by Attorney General Bill Barr's abrupt Friday night firing of Geoffrey Berman, thenow-former U.S. attorneyfor the southern district of New York who -- at first --refused to step down. As he was departing the White House Saturday afternoon, Trump told reporters he was "not involved" in the decision, though just minutes earlier Barr said in a letter that the president, himself, had fired him.
NEW: Pres. Trump claims he's "not involved" in AG William Barr's request to remove SDNY attorney Geoffrey Berman: "That's all up to the attorney general... that's his department, not my department."https://t.co/S8vHQ8lHPUpic.twitter.com/Q9GDsdpfKZ
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics)June 20, 2020
"Well, this is off to a great start," one aide to the president said following those comments.
And it didn't stop there. On Air Force One, en route to Tulsa, Trump was livid at learning that news leaked about six members of his campaign's advance team testing positive for the coronavirus earlier in the day, multiple sources told ABC News. On the ground in Tulsa, some staffers were growing distraught as word spread that some of their coworkers had come down with the virus and were being moved to quarantine. On Monday, the campaign confirmed that two additional campaign staffers who attended the rally tested positive for the coronavirus.
The campaign says the staffers were in attendance during the entire event and were "wearing masks."
At the rally, the president railed at aides backstage ahead of his speech, demanding answers for low turnout, how the rally was organized and why the arena wasn't configured differently, multiple sources said.
Aides to the president quickly pointed the finger at Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, who for months has faced criticism about his ability to successfully run a presidential campaign. Rumors of him being on the chopping block resurfaced, with some quickly predicting that the Tulsa rally debacle would be the final straw.
Senior campaign staffers called the evening a "self-inflicted wound" and criticized Parscale for overpromising a rowdy crowd and turnout numbers that haven't been seen before.
Few understood the decision to go to Tulsa in the first place, with many thinking instead it would have been smarter to target a battleground state that the president needs to win re-election, like Florida or Arizona, senior level campaign sources told ABC News.
One Trump campaign aide called the rally a "huge misfire" that came at a time when the president's team needed a win more than ever, with sinking polling numbers and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden out-raising the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee for the first time in May.
Another aide said putting out the "ridiculous" one million ticket request number was "suicide."
Behind the scenes, as it became clear that the turnout would be far lower than expected, campaign aides scrambled to come up with a defense, ultimately latching on to social media posts showing protests near the area and blaming a familiar and favorite target of the president: the media.
"I've been watching the Fake News for weeks now, and everything is negative. 'Don't go, don't come, don't do anything," Trump said at the top of his rally speech. "You are warriors, thank you," he added, thanking those in attendance.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday disputed reports that the president was irritated with the size of the rally crowd, and instead said he was "very pleased" with the event.
"The president was very pleased with the rally. I was with him. And I just have to say these media reports that he was somehow furious on the plane -- there is no grounding in fact to that. I was with him on Marine One on the way there, on Marine One after. He was very -- very pleased with how the rally went," McEnany said at Monday's press briefing.
With Parcasle's job on the rocks, 2016 Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski -- who also is a current adviser to the president's re-election campaign -- took a rare shot at the president's current political team, calling the execution of the Tulsa rally a "fundamental mistake."
"I think a fundamental mistake was made. Over promising and under-delivering is the biggest mistake you can make in politics," Lewandowski said in an interview with radio program New Hampshire Today with Jack Heath on Monday.
Lewandowski said that when he was campaign manager in 2016 "we never did something like this," adding that the team needs to "go back and re-evaluate the system in which people were getting those tickets and determining if they were real."
