Trump Has COVID megathread (update 10/24: 2 Pence staffers test positive)

[Alben Barkley]

If they did know earlier, even before the debate, it was incredibly irresponsible to take him there and potentially expose Biden and others. Idiots probably thought he would remain asymptomatic and they could just sweep it under the rug, and didn’t give a damn if he infected anybody.

[President Johnson]

Is it just me or is there actually a chance Trump knew he was likely infected on Tuesday went to the debate either deliberately intending or at least not caring to get Joe Biden infected? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised.

[DaleCooper]

Is it just me or is there actually a chance Trump knew he was likely infected on Tuesday went to the debate either deliberately intending or at least not caring to get Joe Biden infected? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised.

It's looking like his family went maskless knowing that they were exposed to the virus.

[CellarDoor]

https://twitter.com/AlisonLeiby/status/1312210212741242880?s=19

[CellarDoor]

Is it just me or is there actually a chance Trump knew he was likely infected on Tuesday went to the debate either deliberately intending or at least not caring to get Joe Biden infected? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was experiencing mild symptoms on Tuesday and they didn't test him before the debate intentionally. They then planned to arrive to the debate late so that he wouldn't be tested there.

I'm not saying I believe this, but it's plausible and wouldn't surprise me.

[BlueSwan]

Apparently Conley has "corrected" himself. Don't know how to embed tweets. But now he is saying that by "72" hours, he meant "day 3" and by "48 hours" he meant day 2. I still smell a rat.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1312450472511303682?fbclid=IwAR1LliTv7Dpl8Z1A73pfEh5v8F3rgCbXJZFcv-U1RD0V6MOQYbDYXIpVevA

[Earthling]

Is it just me or is there actually a chance Trump knew he was likely infected on Tuesday went to the debate either deliberately intending or at least not caring to get Joe Biden infected? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised.

Trump did not take the test, which he should have. They either knew or suspected it.

It might not have been intentional, but Trump would not have cared. He never cares for anyone besides himself.

[Horsemask]

Posting in what will be a legendary thread.

Guess we wait and see what happens.

[CellarDoor]

Apparently Conley has "corrected" himself. Don't know how to embed tweets. But now he is saying that by "72" hours, he meant "day 3" and by "48 hours" he meant day 2. I still smell a rat.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1312450472511303682?fbclid=IwAR1LliTv7Dpl8Z1A73pfEh5v8F3rgCbXJZFcv-U1RD0V6MOQYbDYXIpVevA

There are also several errors in that statement.  I wonder who wrote it.

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1312452260857667584?s=19

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1312457005169164288?s=19

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Apparently Conley has "corrected" himself. Don't know how to embed tweets. But now he is saying that by "72" hours, he meant "day 3" and by "48 hours" he meant day 2. I still smell a rat.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1312450472511303682?fbclid=IwAR1LliTv7Dpl8Z1A73pfEh5v8F3rgCbXJZFcv-U1RD0V6MOQYbDYXIpVevA

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[BidenHarris2020]

They're lying. My God these ghouls are shameless.

[BlueSwan]

Apparently Conley has "corrected" himself. Don't know how to embed tweets. But now he is saying that by "72" hours, he meant "day 3" and by "48 hours" he meant day 2. I still smell a rat.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1312450472511303682?fbclid=IwAR1LliTv7Dpl8Z1A73pfEh5v8F3rgCbXJZFcv-U1RD0V6MOQYbDYXIpVevA

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[YE]

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[Splash]

I don't trust anything that comes out of this White House. We already have four years of evidence to indicate that they will lie about literally anything no matter how insignificant or seemingly benign, like crowd sizes at the inauguration. And they will pressure civil servants to do the same, like Hurricane projections that include Alabama via sharpie.

And when it comes to something as significant as this, I can almost guarantee that they are intentionally omitting critical elements of the truth, and I wouldn't put it past them to just lie outright. And if/when they are caught, they will just shrug it off and blame the media for sensationalizing the health of a sick man.

[BlueSwan]

I'd say there's about a 90% chance they're lying.

So that is slightly higher than the baseline 80% chance they're lying every time a statement is issued by the Trump White House.

[Splash]

https://twitter.com/gabrielsherman/status/1312442681662926850

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

One extra benefit the White House gets from lying is that the public discussion will then spend time discussing the fact that they're lying. Which benefits them, because "the White House is lying about the President's health" is a better narrative for them than most of the reality.

[dunceDude]

If Trump's going to go on a vent, when would that happen? I'm thinking Monday or so.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Folks, you are being trolled with all the sympathy bump stuff.  Just pay no attention to it.

A sympathy bump requires sympathy.  I can't imagine anyone who wasn't already a Trump supporter who is going to have much sympathy for Trump over his getting COVID-19.

[Lourdes]

https://twitter.com/ForrestBrung/status/1312035310155509761

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https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1312462466983501824

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

If anybody didn't read "The Masque of the Red Death" in high school, now is the perfect time to rectify that.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

The fact that they are throwing every possible treatment method, experimental or not, at Trump really does not suggest his case is "mild" in any way, shape, or form.

[Splash]

Confirmed: The anonymous source is Mark Meadows:

https://twitter.com/RyanLizza/status/1312459031429013505

[Alcibiades]

The reports that Trump was in a bad way yesterday and has improved somewhat throughout today suggests a progression of events too far for him to have caught Covid less than 48 hours ago.