“The Omaha disaster is not ‘unbelievable.’ It’s completely believable,” she wrote. “How many different ways can they show us, THEY DO NOT CARE.”
Many of the attendees waited for hours in the cold before the event even started. Attendees were bussed to the rally from a parking lot almost four miles away. “Is there any place you would rather be than at a Trump rally on about a 10 degree evening? … It’s cold out here but that’s okay,” the president said at his campaign event, donning gloves and a heavy black coat.
On Tuesday evening, after the rally at Eppley Airfield, hundreds of Trump supporters were stranded in the freezing cold. Air Force One left the location around 9 p.m. Washington Post reported that roughly 6,000 people attended the rally.
“President Trump took off in Air Force One 1 hr 20 minutes ago, but thousands of his supporters remain stranded on a dark road outside the rally,” CNN’s Jeff Zeleny tweeted late Tuesday night. “‘We need at least 30 more buses,’ an Omaha police officer just said, shaking his head at the chaotic cluster that is unfolding.”
Local outlet Omaha Scanner revealed that right before 11 p.m., “a couple to a few thousand still need to leave the venue” while cops were checking on attendees that were struggling in the freezing temperatures.
Crowds dissipated by 12:30 early Wednesday morning. Around 1 a.m., parking lots finally cleared, over three hours after the president left the site.
The attendees waited in long lines for hours to take busses to parking lots and exit the airfield. Some walked three miles in the freezing cold weather. Others needed medical attention, and were taken away in ambulances. 30 people, including the “elderly, an electric wheelchair user and a family with small children” needed medical attention after waiting in the cold for hours, NBC reported. Some even suffered from hypothermia due to the extremely cold temperatures.
Nebraska Senator Megan Hunt echoed the sentiments of Harris. “Supporters of the President were brought in, but buses weren’t able to get back to transport people out. It’s freezing and snowy in Omaha tonight,” she wrote. “What people will do for this con man, what people have sacrificed, is so sad to me. He truly does not care about you.”
