Chaos broke out at the Trump Rally in Coachella on October 12th in Coachella when thousands of people were stranded for hours due to a lack of buses. The mayor had said Trump was not welcome before the event that “he ain’t like us”. This helped create a hostile environment that probably contributed to the chaos. It created a dangerous situation for thousands of people. Many of them were elderly, handicapped, or just in poor physical condition. Some MSM outlets chortle that the problem was poor planning by the Trump campaign, but it seems more likely due to the intensely anti-Trump environment in California. More conservative outlets are ignoring what happened in Coachella.
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You had to use a bus to get to the rally form one of their parking lots miles from the rally site. There were not enough buses. I waited in 103-degree heat for four hours for a bus to take me to the rally site. I estimate that There were about ten thousand people at the rally, which is a lot when it is so hot.
But 30 minutes after Trump started talking, people started leaving early because they were wiped out by the long wait in the hot sun to get in and wanted to catch an early bus back, but Security would not allow us to leave the grounds while Trump was still there.
A large crowd formed at the gates. We were packed packed together like sardines. Some angrily shouted “Let us out!! Let us out!!”. I was afraid a stampede could happen and people would be hurt. Then the people in the front pushed past security and the crowd swarmed into the pickup location. Many started climbing over the fences to get to a bus.
It was mass chaos. I waited in vain for a bus for four hours to take me back to my car. It looked like it was going to take hours more to get to the parking lot 5 miles away. They had not taken the security perimeter down hours after Trump had left. If you walked about a mile from the entrance you could be past the security perimeter and could call Uber, but the wait was long and charge on cell phones of many were running down.
Some called friends and relatives to pick them up. I heard one person call a friend an hour away to come and get her. After four hours waiting, I decided to start walking the 5 miles to my car. After I had walked about halfway, two sheriff’s deputies stopped and gave me a ride to my car, because they said it was a dangerous neighborhood.
I then drove to San Diego and got home about 3am, totally exhausted. The chaos could have been caused by poor planning. But with the hostility there, as promoted by the mayor, I suspect a lot of bus drivers refused to transport people to and from the rally and that’s what caused the chaos. Many of the bus drivers in the area would certainly be against Trump and probably some of the drivers were probably illegal aliens, too, since illegals can obtain a commercial drivers License in California.
History
In May of 2016, when Trump first came to California a mob tried to storm the conference hall where Trump was speaking. I thought something was bound to happen to disrupt his event in Coachella when he returned and something did happen. See the video from 2016 below.
In Coachella a mass counter protest was not possible, due to the heat and because the nearby streets were closed and there was no parking near the event. So creating a shortage of buses would be an effective way to disrupt the rally.
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