In hindsight, they clearly should have done it. No matter the consequences that might have followed a decision to turn around, undoubtedly due to a medical issue or something, it would have had less negative fallout than going through with the speech and humiliating himself in front 0f 6200 unenthusiastic supporters.

According to Business Insider and Rawstory, as campaign aides began to figure out that there was no big crowd coming to see Trump’s “Great American Comeback” in Tulsa, indeed there would be seats everywhere, campaign aides began frantically texting people in the area in an attempt to get more supporters out to the arena.

One aide said that they wished the plane could just turn around (!) and that they needed to call Air Force One to prepare Trump, to tell him that the “big event” wasn’t going to be that big.

From Rawstory:

According to one Trump staffer, they wished Air Force had turned around in mid-air in order to save Trump any embarrassment.

“Ultimately, Trump went through with his 2020 campaign’s big return rally in Oklahoma after months in a COVID-19 quarantine lockdown, empty seats and all,” Business Insider reports. “None of the eight Trump advisers interviewed by Insider had positive things to say about an event that has since sparked all manner of soul-searching and finger-pointing as the president’s campaign looks to find its footing against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with a little more than four months to go until Election Day.”

We have read reports today from Vanity Fair stating that Trump had a full-blown “temper-tantrump” when he arrived at the arena, yelling at aides about how this could happen. Helpfully, Brad Parscale was not at the event, apparently, he planned something for himself more important than coordinating the hundreds of thousands that were to descend upon the arena. Maybe Brad knew.

They should have turned it around. Glad they did not.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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