Brad_ATX 13,654 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-health-archive-hope-hicks-7fece2838ff7a9bd91ccf5ac287348b3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,158 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Best wishes with regard to their health. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTiger 12,964 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Hope they both get well soon and that it hasn’t spread too far in their circle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ATX 13,654 Posted October 2, 2020 Author Share Posted October 2, 2020 1) I'm not celebrating anyone getting Covid. 2) Please remember what the man said two days ago, mocking Biden for wearing a mask. If you think this clip won't be everywhere, you're sadly mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennypowers 1,431 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Scam He got it intentionally knowing he's going to get the best care a single human on earth can get, so he can come out of it saying it was no big deal, so people will vote for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG-91 1,483 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 So who had this on their bingo card for October? The s*** show that is about to ensue (and I'm sure is already in progress) is going to be incredibly unpleasant...but it's not going to be a surprise. Hope all involved end up being OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leftfield 2,617 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 5 hours ago, kennypowers said: Scam He got it intentionally knowing he's going to get the best care a single human on earth can get, so he can come out of it saying it was no big deal, so people will vote for him. We don't need a conspiracy theorist on this. He is in a very high risk demographic and is not going to intentionally get Covid. He could be in serious trouble no matter the quality of care he's going to get. I'm sure I've made clear how I feel about the man, but I do hope he and Melania avoid any serious symptoms and fully recover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SocialCircle 570 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Prayers lifted to the first family and to all who have been impacted by this virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanTiger 20,499 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Removed the s***posts and responses to them. Carry on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyTiger 7,816 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Surprised he has made it this deep into the pandemic with no positive test. Have family members that followed all guidelines and used extreme caution yet contacted it. Wish the best for the president and Melania's health. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,158 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 2 hours ago, SLAG-91 said: So who had this on their bingo card for October? Tom Nichols said something about an October Surprise advent calendar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,431 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 This man is so not winning this election...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey 16,641 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 It probably won't be a big deal. I got tested back in August because of extended contact with a family member who got sick. I tested positive but wouldn't have known I had the mess had I not been tested. Not even a sniffle for me. My Dr. said that's how it goes with about half of the people who contact this virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanTiger 20,499 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Good to see some basic decency. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-receives-well-wishes-from-unlikely-sources-following-positive-coronavirus-test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubiefifty 16,823 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 i actually said a quick prayer for trump and the first lady. and no guns were held to my head to do it. covid scares me and i would not wish it on anyone. my hope is it is a teaching moment for him. anyway i hope they both have a full recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubiefifty 16,823 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 29 minutes ago, TitanTiger said: Good to see some basic decency. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-receives-well-wishes-from-unlikely-sources-following-positive-coronavirus-test i agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunInRed 16,438 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Best wishes to them both for a speedy recovery but damn, there is some irony here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,393 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 "After White House officials learned of Hicks’s symptoms, Trump and his entourage flew Thursday to New Jersey, where he attended a fundraiser at his golf club in Bedminster and delivered a speech. Trump was in close contact with dozens of other people, including campaign supporters, at a roundtable event. The president did not wear a mask Thursday, including at the events at his golf course and on the plane, officials said. He was tested after he returned to the White House, but he also appeared on Sean Hannity’s TV show from the residence by telephone." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hope-hicks-close-trump-aide-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/2020/10/01/af238f7c-0444-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,393 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 8 minutes ago, RunInRed said: Best wishes to them both for a speedy recovery but damn, there is some irony here. Karma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuCivilEng1 11,012 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,393 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 I feel the same empathy as when I heard Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. But I sincerely hope Trump recovers. If for no other reason, to experience the humiliation of a land-side reelection defeat and to face the pending criminal charges, which I hope are pursued. Oh yeah, a third reason is to watch the GOP tear itself apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auburn41 492 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 11 minutes ago, homersapien said: Philip Epstein Having a Biden moment huh? I think you mean Jeffrey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,393 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 5 minutes ago, auburn41 said: Having a Biden moment huh? I think you mean Jeffrey! The "thanks" was for catching my mistake and notifying me. The Biden barb was kind of pathetic - especially given the circumstances. Trump falsely suggests wearing a mask at his Tulsa rally could be harmful He anticipated a “wild evening” where “people do what they want.” "....Trump’s comments come as the city has seen a surge in Covid-19 cases in the past few weeks. They also stand at odds with recommendations from public health officials in his own administration who recommend mask-wearing whenever social distancing isn’t possible, and with warnings from experts that indoor concerts and shows are natural superspreading events. Trump’s rally Saturday — which will take place at an indoor arena that seats 19,000 people — will be the first one he’s held in months after taking a break from them due to the global pandemic. But despite the coronavirus still raging across the US — and surging in the very city he’s going to campaign in — he repeatedly dismissed the threat of the virus and expert-recommended mitigation strategies during his interview with Axios...... https://www.vox.com/2020/6/20/21297693/trump-rally-tulsa-masks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,393 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Trump’s pre-spin seems to blame military, police interactions for coronavirus diagnosis Aaron Blake Oct. 2, 2020 A couple of weeks ago, President Trump was fending off a brutal, anonymously sourced story in the Atlantic about comments he had allegedly made disparaging military veterans and the nation’s war dead. The comments sounded like things Trump had said publicly before, particularly about the late senator John McCain, yet he denied he would ever be so insensitive. But in the hours after we learned that counselor to the president Hope Hicks had tested positive for the novel coronavirus and before we learned Trump himself had it, he offered some strange comments that seemed to lay the groundwork for how he could explain his impending diagnosis: It might have come from the military or law enforcement. “You know, it’s very hard, when you’re with soldiers, when you’re with airmen, when you’re with Marines, and I’m with — and the police officers,” Trump said. “I’m with them so much. And when they come over here, it’s very hard to say, stay back, stay back. It’s a tough kind of a situation.” Trump then turned to his own test and to Hicks. “So, I just went for a test, and we’ll see what happens. I mean, who knows? But you know her very well. She’s fantastic. And she’s done a great job.” And then he again returned to the alleged potential spreaders. “But it’s very, very hard when you are with people from the military or … law enforcement, and they come over to you, and they want to hug you, and they want to kiss you, because we really have done a good job for them,” Trump said. “And you get close, and things happen.” Trump on where he thinks Hope Hicks contracted COVID: “It's very, very hard when you're w/people from the military & law enforcement & they come over to you & they want to hug you & they want to kiss you bc we really have done a good job for them, you get close, & things happen." pic.twitter.com/WFTwKcy0dL — Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) October 2, 2020 The confluence of circumstances Thursday night led to plenty of speculation. The White House has access to rapid-response tests, so how could Trump not know at that point whether he had tested positive? Hicks reportedly fell ill Wednesday and was quarantined on Air Force One. But by Thursday night, Trump still didn’t have a final word? (Trump’s White House has rarely been forthcoming with his health information.) It was also an odd way to explain Hicks’s positive test. However much military members and law enforcement appreciate what the Trump White House has done for them, are they really going up to Trump’s low-profile senior counselor, who rarely speaks publicly, to hug her and try to kiss her? It’s clear Trump was setting the stage for how he would explain either Hicks’s positive test or his own. His and the White House’s cavalier posture toward mask-wearing and continuing to hold large public rallies and events was suddenly looking more foolhardy than ever, and Trump sought to pre-blame it on something else — something that, conveniently, reflected a deep affection for Donald Trump. His explanation also tracks with his often questionable stories about just how much affection supporters show him in private. Just this week, he cited a construction worker who he said was crying in gratitude when they met. He has told very similar stories about a coal miner, a steelworker, a farmer and a man who looked like a football player, as CNN’s Daniel Dale noted Wednesday, often with plenty of “sirs” interspersed. There is no doubt supporters will be in awe and perhaps become emotional when meeting a president, but Trump’s history of fabulism looms over his descriptions. Whether there’s some truth to it, here was the president effectively blaming military members and law enforcement for not being more careful when meeting their country’s leaders; there’s no other way to read it. It also didn’t allow for the idea that there should have been precautions to prevent these alleged scenes, which the Secret Service is more than capable of providing. But Trump has never been interested in all of that, and he clearly set the tone for the coronavirus being allowed to spread — whether it’s in how the White House or his campaign has handled precautions such as masks and social distancing, or in how he has downplayed the severity of the virus, which has led his supporters to eschew such basic precautions, much like Trump has. This is unquestionably a sad moment in U.S. history; any president coming down with a serious illness can be destabilizing, not just for the country but for the world. But Trump’s effort to pre-spin this one is a thoroughly odd one, and it’s one that glosses over so much of what probably contributed to an outcome that health officials and his critics have long warned about — and has now happened. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/02/trumps-strange-pre-spin-his-coronavirus-diagnosis-it-came-military-police-who-want-hug-kiss-you/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ATX 13,654 Posted October 2, 2020 Author Share Posted October 2, 2020 I love Chris Wallace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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