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alp227

(31,961 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 12:07 AM Jun 2020

Trump campaign asks supporters to waive COVID-19 liability to attend Tulsa rally

Source: Roll Call

Supporters of President Donald Trump are being asked to immunize his campaign from COVID-19 liability claims if they want to attend his next campaign rally.

“By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present,” the online registration form for the public says. “By attending the Rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; BOK Center; ASM Global; or any of their affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, or volunteers liable for any illness or injury.”

The BOK Center is the large indoor arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will be the site of the June 19 Trump reelection campaign rally, the first for the president since the coronavirus pandemic has dominated the public’s attention. ASM Global manages the venue.

The White House and congressional Republicans are focusing on including limitations on liability for coronavirus-related claims in any economic aid package. It was not immediately clear how that might apply to political campaigns.

Read more: https://rollcall.com/2020/06/11/trump-campaign-asks-supporters-to-waive-covid-19-liability-to-attend-tulsa-rally/

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niyad

(112,434 posts)
2. They should also sign waivers stating that they will not burden our medical systems with
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 12:27 AM
Jun 2020

their useless, ignorant selves under any conditions, be it covid45, malaria, broken limbs. . .anything.

TreadSoftly

(219 posts)
7. ah... the inherent risk approach
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 12:54 AM
Jun 2020

I expect to see more of this reasoning as we open. I wonder if all that text would fit on the back of a theatre/sport/church ticket!

"Assumed risk" is similar: horse riding are inherently dangerous and (at least in TN) you have to post special language that informs potential horse-renting/riding clients that they are accepting the risk. The rules were modeled on similar rules on skiing that saved the ski industry, I believe.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
10. Fine just keep 'em all in Oklahoma .... But let anybody who wants to leave the state leave it now.
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 07:13 AM
Jun 2020

Kids, seniors, teachers, anybody with a brain, and so on can go now and then fence the state in
and let God and Darwin take care of the rest.


Good God in Butter anybody who signs that waver is stupid.

samsingh

(17,571 posts)
12. this is HUGE and should be pushed repeatedly
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 10:23 AM
Jun 2020

trump admitted to his own lies about covid not being a big deal, and he's willing to risk the lives of his stupid supporters for photoops.

This should be in the media constantly.

Is the Lincoln project listening? Show trump's words about covid being a flu and then show the text of this registration.

cp

(6,543 posts)
13. "I'll pay all your medical expenses." DJT, aka Bunker Boy
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 11:17 AM
Jun 2020

There, fixed it for you.

Just like he offered to pay legal expenses. And then didn't.

What they should be signing is, "I'm a chump."

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,846 posts)
14. I forgot about that! I never believed it, so my brain...
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 11:29 AM
Jun 2020

... didn't bother to retain it.

I'm poor at remembering all his lies, for much the same reason.

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