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Eddy Edson

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It’s apparently true, the BBC is full of it. I wouldn’t like to be in the shoes of the Aide who developed symptoms and had to be quarantined on Airforce 1 on the way to the Debate, and probably gave it to him. Melania also has tested positive.
 
All these people on Twitter saying Trump's faking it, but I don't get why he would. In his world, being sick = being a loser.
 
Eddy Edson said:
All these people on Twitter saying Trump's faking it, but I don't get why he would. In his world, being sick = being a loser.
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Tongue in cheek mate, Trump is famous for saying fake news when bad publicity comes his way.
 
nonethewiser said:
Tongue in cheek mate, Trump is famous for saying fake news when bad publicity comes his way.
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All the news outlets are running the odds on Trump falling off his perch from this. Bad - it's tasteless, and also the chances only seem to be about 5%.
 
Eddy Edson said:
All the news outlets are running the odds on Trump falling off his perch from this. Bad - it's tasteless, and also the chances only seem to be about 5%.
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If he does fall of his perch, at least the presidential elections won't be compromised by his refusal of results, which to me is more of a worry.
No intended disrespect.
 
Just because he’s positive doesn’t mean he’s got symptoms. I suspect either he will be asymptomatic/have it very mildly and claim how strong he is to beat it or it will go badly for him and his base will claim he’s a hero anyway. He will spin it to his benefit (and they’ll probably suggest Biden stops campaigning)
 
Eddy Edson said:
All the news outlets are running the odds on Trump falling off his perch from this
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The first 15 minutes of BBC Breakfast was nothing but Trump (not my choice, I'd rather stay away from news as much as possible but that would mean sitting in my room alone a lot) they had him as 70+, obese, a few other conditions, fed up of it already xx
 
Eddy Edson said:
All these people on Twitter saying Trump's faking it, but I don't get why he would. In his world, being sick = being a loser.
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But for everyone else, being ill evokes sympathy so if he gets a bit ill he gets some sympathy vote (maybe), and he gets to skip whatever things were planned for the next couple of weeks (and nothing he's been doing recently have improved his polling so that's probably a win).

I could buy it being fake. Even if it is and he's found out, a lot of his supporters would assume it's just the media attacking him so I doubt even that would be a big negative.

(On the other hand, it doesn't seem unlikely. I thought it was always a matter of when rather than if.)
 
Kaylz said:
The first 15 minutes of BBC Breakfast was nothing but Trump (not my choice, I'd rather stay away from news as much as possible but that would mean sitting in my room alone a lot) they had him as 70+, obese, a few other conditions, fed up of it already xx
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Well on ITV they spent more than half an hour on it!
 
grovesy said:
Well on ITV they spent more than half an hour on it!
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They couldv'e went back to it, I go and get on at 6:25 and then mum changes it to Channel 4 at 7, I suspect it wasn't only 15 minutes mind xx
 
My gut feeling is that it isn't true and they are using it as a ploy because of the elections and the fact he is currently not doing as well as they would like. The timing is just too convenient. It opens up a lot of options for him by saying he has tested positive (sympathy vote/delaying the election and let's not forget that he will milk it big time if he "amazingly" overcomes it without being remotely ill because that will show that he is such a big, strong, powerful man and that the virus is nothing to worry about).
Of course if he is later proved not to have the virus, he could just say that it must have been a false positive test.

People celebrating his supposed infection just puts more power into the hands of his campaigners, so again, that is a win because it shows that his opponents are devoid of common decency.

In my opinion, falsely saying he has the virus has to be a win situation for him right now and I think he will milk it for all it is worth. Would like to say that I would be happy to be proved wrong and I am just being horribly cynical but that might also make me at risk of being devoid of common decency.
 
They can't delay the election and the sympathy thing makes zero sense to me. There are only about 12 likely voters in the country who haven't already made up their minds and anyway Trump's only mass appeal is to idiots who think he's "strong".

Wait to see how many others of his team test positive. This is just a bunch of whackjob muttonheads too dumb to take basic precautions.
 
rebrascora said:
In my opinion, falsely saying he has the virus has to be a win situation for him right now and I think he will milk it for all it is worth.
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I agree I don't see a downside to him faking it. On the other hand, his nearest contacts get tested at least daily (and he apparently gets tested several times daily) and a bunch have tested positive. He makes fun of Biden for wearing a mask, so I'm guessing he's not that vigilant in keeping a distance. (He's probably OK at hand washing since he's said to be a germophobe.)

I think this is probably a case where he's telling the truth (however unlikely that seems in the abstract).
 
Eddy Edson said:
They can't delay the election
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They can delay it a little bit, but Congress would have to do that. (There's a hard limit sometime in January when the President stops being the President.)

More likely would be he'd insist that they delay the election and then complain bitterly when that didn't happen. (He seems to envisage that he might win the election or that it's stolen from him in some way, so this would be another part of the second option.)
 
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