[andy popp]

So, does he have it?

Sympathy vote ploy?

Is it BS?

Unfortunately, I’m so jaded by all this, this is my first reaction.

My first post was genuinely made before the news of the positive result. I had those thoughts, of course, but I think the potential downsides to this news are bigger (for him) than the upsides. I think it's true.

[ali k]

Sympathy vote ploy?

Is it BS?

Unfortunately, I’m so jaded by all this, this is my first reaction.

That was exactly my first thought too.

[Dac]

I'm going to need an I.V. line and a bottle of bleach.....

If Trump is out of action could they get Pence to stand in for the debates? He couldn't do worse than Trump and has the advantage that any questions linked to Wotsit Hitler's tax affairs or business dealings can be parried away as something you have to ask the orange one himself.

[Offwidth]

Several people seem to be speculating if this could be another political distraction move but it seems unlikely as his Doctor also reported it. Trump is now apparently the biggest spreader of covid fake news afterall:

 https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/evanega-et-al-coronavirus-misinformation-submitted-07-23-20-1/080839ac0c22bca8/full.pdf

[andy popp]

If Trump is out of action could they get Pence to stand in for the debates?

No, most likely they simply won't go ahead. We can still look forward to Kamala eviscerating Pence however.

[tomtom]

Over the next two weeks we’re going to see whether Karma exists or not...

[webbo]

Maybe he doesn’t have it. So when he goes through two weeks quarantine without so much as a sniffle. Just think of the scenarios that he could then use.

[TobyD]

So, does he have it?

Sympathy vote ploy?

Is it BS?

Unfortunately, I’m so jaded by all this, this is my first reaction.

That was exactly what I thought. It's so depressing that he's such an unpleasant individual that that is not a surprising or uncommon response.

[SA Chris]

Over the next two weeks we’re going to see whether Karma exists or not...

Karma in the form of Kamala. Like andy said, I expect it will be a bloodbath.

[Offwidth]

More bad news for his family in the latest detail from the tax story

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/politics/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-tacves/index.html

[SA Chris]

Need Ben Affleck on the case yo'

[Nibile]

Yes, he does.

The thing that should make people think is, in my opinion, the fact that he knew Hicks's positivity and hid it, going on normally with social life: meeting supporters, going on TV, etc.

[andy popp]

Yes, he's been recklessly endangering the American people for months, he carried on doing it on Thursday knowing Hicks was ill (even if the test wasn't back), and he has recklessly endangered the nation's leadership at a critical moment.

[Nibile]

Normal day at the office, then.

[Oldmanmatt]

Of course, this means Trump exposed Biden too.
There was a fair amount of shouting in that debate, so all those cartoons of Biden being drowned in Trumps spray, might be prophetic...

Harris for Pres?

[andy popp]

In other news today: Melania's take on being expected to show sympathy for children separated at the border, "Give me a fucking break."

[Oldmanmatt]

In other news today: Melania's take on being expected to show sympathy for children separated at the border, "Give me a fucking break."

I liked the appellation given her by one publication this morning:

A Double Agent in the war on Christmas...

[Oldmanmatt]

So, he’s in Walter Reed.

They surely have fairly extensive med facilities and staff in the White house?

But he needs to be in a hospital for “tests”?

[tomtom]

So, he’s in Walter Reed.

They surely have fairly extensive med facilities and staff in the White house?

But he needs to be in a hospital for “tests”?

They can react quicker there I guess. But maybe it’s for the reverse reason. They’ll have to quarantine and deep clean large parts of the White House - so maybe just easier to move the source somewhere else rather than work around him?

[andy popp]

I think there's no doubt he's sick, possibly quite sick.

[TobyD]

Several people seem to be speculating if this could be another political distraction move but it seems unlikely as his Doctor also reported it. Trump is now apparently the biggest spreader of covid fake news afterall:

 https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/evanega-et-al-coronavirus-misinformation-submitted-07-23-20-1/080839ac0c22bca8/full.pdf

The same doctor who proclaimed Trump the fittest strongest man he had ever examined. 

Having said that it is admittedly pretty unlikely hes faking it. 

I would think that the main  reason youd move someone to a hospital rather than the white house is that they'd have access to a ventilator if required.  Everything else youd have at the white house I imagine. 

[seankenny]

Clearly some unhappiness in the Conway household:

https://twitter.com/spenceralthouse/status/1312211105813458944?s=21

[tomtom]

Interesting analysis in the media. General consensus seems to be that trumps campaign has more to lose from this than gain. Mainly it shifts the focus away from law and order where the GOP were trying to push the news cycle - firmly towards CV19 where Trump has let’s be frank an awful record.

[Offwidth]

Several people seem to be speculating if this could be another political distraction move but it seems unlikely as his Doctor also reported it. Trump is now apparently the biggest spreader of covid fake news afterall:

 https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/evanega-et-al-coronavirus-misinformation-submitted-07-23-20-1/080839ac0c22bca8/full.pdf

The same doctor who proclaimed Trump the fittest strongest man he had ever examined. 

Having said that it is admittedly pretty unlikely hes faking it. 

I would think that the main  reason youd move someone to a hospital rather than the white house is that they'd have access to a ventilator if required.  Everything else youd have at the white house I imagine.

There is a big difference between a bit of positive hyperbole (some of which, it turns out, the doctor didn't even write) and telling a lie to the nation on the President having covid.  Trump must have 'good genes' as most with his attitudes to diet and exercise would have major health problems by now, and many would be dead.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/03/trump-covid-flip-flop-trump

[mrjonathanr]

They can react quicker there I guess. But maybe it’s for the reverse reason. They’ll have to quarantine and deep clean large parts of the White House - so maybe just easier to move the source somewhere else rather than work around him?

His ego will warm to that 😂 A man who has falsely downplayed the threat of the virus is unlikely to be hamming it up and drawing attention to it now. He’s in Walter Reed because they’re worried.