Yahoo Autos Trump changed the date of his Juneteenth Tulsa rally after a Black Secret Service agent told him it was 'very offensive,' book says
A Black Secret Service member told Trump it was "offensive" to hold a rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth.
In his book, reporter Michael Bender provides more detail about the exchange that led Trump to change the rally date.
Trump's team - including former campaign manager Brad Parscale - was unaware of the date's significance in US history.
The Trump campaign team changed the date of the controversial Tulsa rally after a Black Secret Service member told the former president that holding it on Juneteenth was "very offensive" to him, according to a forthcoming book by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender.
The reported detail was revealed in an excerpt of the book, "Frankly We Did Win This Election': The Inside Story of How Donald Trump Lost," which was published in Politico on Friday.
According to Bender, Trump's team - including former campaign manager Brad Parscale - was unaware of the date's significance in America when they selected the date and location for the ex-president's first rally since the COVID-19 outbreak.
"No one on Parscale's team flagged that day - or that combination of time and place - as potentially problematic," the journalist wrote, according to The Hill.
The former president said in an interview last year that it was a Black Secret Service agent who had informed him about the history of Juneteenth, although Bender has now revealed more details about that conversation.
