“Gave them the benefit of the doubt” is probably more accurate than “assumed,” but maybe I am less cynical than I thought!
Breaking News: Liar Lied!
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I don’t know why I am surprised to see that he did this… pathetic.
Fixed, for accuracy.
Or they were at least worried that he might test positive.
A positive test followed by a negative test sounds inconclusive to me. Especially because as I understand it, the White House was using fairly unreliable tests in those days. (Apparently not Binax, because they said they were switching to Binax, which came back negative.)
The Ohio governor tested positive on the White House test and then negative multiple times on PCR tests and his positive was widely regarded to be a false positive.
So while it does seem like both an evil thing to conceal and do inadequate follow-up testing after, I’d maybe stop short of saying that they knew he definitely had Covid on the day of the debate. More like they were deliberately burying their heads in the sand so as to have plausible deniability.
It certainly seems like it was deliberate that they showed up late, at any rate.
Imagine the disaster we would have been in had Biden caught COVID and died, Trump won re-election, and we later found out he and his team caused it all by at best carelessly burying their heads in the sand and at worst actually hoping for that outcome. There was an entire crew from both sides that could have linked transmission between the two without Trump giving it directly to Biden while yelling at him for 90 minutes.
Yes, it’s very good that Biden didn’t get it from Trump… or really anyone else for that matter.
I wonder if the yelling at Biden was an attempt to infect him, or just the ravings of Trump’s covid-addled brain.
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Not enough control data to link the ravings to COVID.
IFYP and I’m pretty sure it was the latter.
So Mark Meadows knows all of this and did nothing about it until he had a book deal. What a guy.
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The WH was just a club of grifters for 4 years.
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You could give him the benefit of the doubt and end up being wrong like all those other times.
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Doing the right thing when it means losing your job is a difficult thing for most people. Doesn’t make it ok, of course.
In t hat scenario, this part is unlikely.
Meadows was going to gift whenever he was eventually fired. It may not have been that much longer if that scenario had happened, but yes, that was a possibility.
That quote is very accurate for the last 30 years.
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I can see pockets there with Hillary being SoS and Bill collecting whatever speaking fees or other nonsense he pulled in. Bush seemed OK, Cheney maybe not so much. Hard to see what Obama had going on that was all that bad, but Trump seemed to more than make up for those 8 years during his term.
I guess it also depends on how you view things like speaking fees after leaving office, book deals for memoirs, and cushy jobs lots of top administration peeps land once they leave the white house. Seems a lot more respectable than the crew running around a year after the election still trying to make a buck on some democracy killing conspiracies about who actually won.
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I prefer people that don’t die from diseases that I give them…
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[Little girl looking at the camera with an inquisitive look on her face and her hands in the act of shrugging]
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