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- President Donald Trump's campaign director has publicly pushed back against at reports that K-pop fans and TikTokers helped tank Trump's Saturday rally by reserving thousands of tickets and not showing up.
- Brad Parscale said "leftists and online trolls ... don't know what they're talking about or how our rallies work," and blamed the low attendance on the "fake news" media.
- But other officials anonymously told The New York Times that online pranksters did likely play a role in the low turnout, but said they could now use "troll data" to "tighten up" projections for future events.
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In public, the Trump campaign has adamantly denied claims that legions of TikTokers and K-pop fans helped tank the president's big comeback rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday.
"Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don't know what they're talking about or how our rallies work," Brad Parscale, Trump's campaign manager, said in a statement Sunday.
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