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United States: Trump indoor rally outraged local authorities

2020-09-14T05:05:17.765Z


Nevada state leaders believe that the US president's latest meeting "directly violated Covid-19 guidelines."


Donald Trump held his first fully indoor meeting on Sunday (September 13) in months, outraging local authorities who had warned that the rally could violate coronavirus restrictions on the authorized gauge.

The meeting scheduled for Sunday in the city of Henderson (Nevada) drew the wrath of local authorities who reported that events bringing together more than 50 people were not allowed because of the coronavirus.

The City of Henderson sent a formal letter and verbal warning to the event organizer explaining that the event, as scheduled, directly violated the governor's Covid-19 emergency guidelines

City spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said in a statement.

Trump used Sunday's rally in Henderson, a suburb of Las Vegas, to applaud his own handling of the pandemic, which has killed nearly 195,000 Americans, the highest toll in the world.

"

We have done an incredible job, we are getting absolutely no recognition for the work we have done,

" he told the gathered crowd, adding that his leadership has "

saved millions of lives

".

State Governor Steve Sisolak wrote on Twitter that "

President Donald Trump is taking reckless and selfish actions tonight, which is putting countless lives at risk here in Nevada

."

And to emphasize: "

It seems that the president has forgotten that his country is still in the middle of a global pandemic

".

Donald Trump called Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, an “

amateur in politics

” and urged the crowd to “

tell (his) governor to open (their) state

”.

The pandemic deprived the US presidential campaign of its usual flood of meetings but with less than two months of the poll, Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, have accelerated the pace of their appearances.

Donald Trump's campaign team said that temperature measurements would be taken at the entrance to the meeting and that masks would be given to participants, encouraged to wear them.

"

If you can join tens of thousands of people demonstrating in the streets, playing in a casino or burning small businesses in riots, you can assemble peacefully under the 1st Amendment to listen to the President of the United States,

" he said. Donald Trump's campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told reporters.

In June, Donald Trump had already been heavily criticized after holding an indoor meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, later suspected of having been at the origin of a spike in Covid-19 cases.

Most of the participants did not follow the distancing instructions and refused to wear masks.

Coronavirus cases in Tulsa had greatly increased in the weeks following this Tulsa meeting, local health authorities specifying that it was "

more than likely

" that large gatherings contributed to it.

Source: lefigaro

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