Iran Press/America: US President Donald Trump hailed his supporters as "warriors" Saturday for defying the Coronavirus and attacked his Democratic rivals at his first campaign rally in three months, an event with crowds far smaller than promised.
Trump claimed victory over the pandemic that has killed some 120,000 Americans, saying: "I have done a phenomenal job with it!" despite the fact that six members of his own Tulsa advance team tested positive for COVID-19.
Racial tensions have roiled the nation following the police killing of a black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis. Trump has fanned the flames with provocative rhetoric, including a tweeted threat to protesters ahead of Tulsa's rally.
He warned that Democrats were seeking to erase American heritage, a reference to the tearing down of several statues of Confederate slave owners and other figures. Trump described Biden, his Democrat rival in the next Presidential election as a “helpless puppet of the radical left.” Then Trump claimed that although Joe Biden himself had never been a radical leftist, he was controlled by the fringes of his party.
In almost two hours of speech for the rally, he did not make any statement acknowledging the Juneteenth holiday, celebrating the end of slavery; instead, he demonized people who had mostly been demonstrating peacefully as radical “rioters.’’
"The unhinged left-wing mob is trying to vandalize our history, desecrate our beautiful monuments, tear down our statues, and punish, cancel and persecute anyone who does not conform to their demands for absolute and total control," he said.
Trump had originally been scheduled to address an overflow crowd of supporters outside, but those plans were also scrapped at the last minute.
While rally managers claimed that protesters interfered with supporters which prevented people from entering the rally, reality shows there were few protests across the city, and black leaders in Tulsa called for people to stay away from the rally. There was also a huge security presence around the arena as the crowd was below the campaign’s expectations.
Urging Iran to make a deal before the 2020 election
ِDuring the speech to his campaign rally in Tusla, Trump said that he is ready for a quick deal with Iran.
The US president also claimed that Iran and China would like her election rival, Joe Biden, to win the election. He went on saying that if Iran waits until the US election to negotiate, it would have to pay twice for the deal.
Trump also claimed that former US President, Barack Obama had given cash to Iran. 212/104
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