[teejers1]

Let me ask you this, GR:

Do you believe the White House would announce the POTUS was positive for Covid if he tested positive and nobody else around him had tested positive yet?  Keep in mind, as dabigv13 pointed out, the POTUS told Sean Hannity he was waiting for test results when he already knew he was infected.

We know nothing about when the POTUS last tested negative. NOTHING. These are your available options:

1. POTUS wasn't tested until he showed symptoms.
2. He was tested periodically, but not before the Sept. 26 Rose Garden event.
3. He was tested weekly, like on Mondays (which would be impetus for the extra distancing on Monday Sept. 27 event).
4. If 3 is true, he knew he was positive at the debate.

All of them are reprehensible in their own right.

And completely motiveless. Just what was the upside of all this deception?

God knows, I've clashed head to head with Teejers often enough over the years. But we're on the same page here. It's been tough over the past few years to be exasperated and opposed to Trump for ordinary human reasons, and then have to cope with all this demonization. Please look to ordinary human motives - in this case, ordinary prudence - before you go demon hunting.

What do you think you'd be doing if Trump had announced the results of the provisional tests, and then found that the more comprehensive one was inconclusive or negative? I'll tell you. You'd be playing the game in the exact opposite direction.

There's obvious reason to delay an announcement until the conclusive results are in. There is also no advantage of any kind to 'lying' for the sake of lying for two or three days - at least, none that I can see. Think about it.

Hmm.  Maybe I need to reconsider . . . 

Actually, the negative, mind-losing reaction Trump engenders in so many folks - including very bright people - is so unique that  I wonder if some day it will become a psychological case study included in all the textbooks.  It is a remarkable phenomenon.  For the majority of the MSM, I kinda get it in that they had so much egg-on-face regarding the election results that you could see them thinking to themselves "never again" and acting accordingly.  But for Joe Blow on the street - which includes almost all of us - I've always thought the Trump fixation is allowing him "to win" by dominating Joe Blow's mind set.  I prefer not to give the guy any of my mind share (or as little as possible).  This thread is an example - why does it really matter when or how Trump contracted Covid?   From this thread, it appears some think that (i) if it can be established that Trump was positive before the debate, and (ii) if he knew it, and (iii) if Trump debated anyway with the hope of infecting Biden, and (iv) if Biden subsequently comes down with Covid, then the electorate will be able to blame Trump, and (iv) if those all come true then Trump should be disqualified from even trying to get re-elected, etc. . . .   

I mean . . . is it really worth all that mind share and angst (especially since there are so many holes in that sequence that it makes a block of Swiss cheese look rock solid)?

Me?  I'm content with "you reap what you sow," and Trump getting Covid is that in spades.

[teejers1]

Let me ask you this, GR:

Do you believe the White House would announce the POTUS was positive for Covid if he tested positive and nobody else around him had tested positive yet?  Keep in mind, as dabigv13 pointed out, the POTUS told Sean Hannity he was waiting for test results when he already knew he was infected.

We know nothing about when the POTUS last tested negative. NOTHING. These are your available options:

1. POTUS wasn't tested until he showed symptoms.
2. He was tested periodically, but not before the Sept. 26 Rose Garden event.
3. He was tested weekly, like on Mondays (which would be impetus for the extra distancing on Monday Sept. 27 event).
4. If 3 is true, he knew he was positive at the debate.

All of them are reprehensible in their own right.

And completely motiveless. Just what was the upside of all this deception?

God knows, I've clashed head to head with Teejers often enough over the years. But we're on the same page here. It's been tough over the past few years to be exasperated and opposed to Trump for ordinary human reasons, and then have to cope with all this demonization. Please look to ordinary human motives - in this case, ordinary prudence - before you go demon hunting.

What do you think you'd be doing if Trump had announced the results of the provisional tests, and then found that the more comprehensive one was inconclusive or negative? I'll tell you. You'd be playing the game in the exact opposite direction.

There's obvious reason to delay an announcement until the conclusive results are in. There is also no advantage of any kind to 'lying' for the sake of lying for two or three days - at least, none that I can see. Think about it.

Hmm.  Maybe I need to reconsider . . . 

Actually, the negative, mind-losing reaction Trump engenders in so many folks - including very bright people - is so unique that  I wonder if some day it will become a psychological case study included in all the textbooks.  It is a remarkable phenomenon.  For the majority of the MSM, I kinda get it in that they had so much egg-on-face regarding the election results that you could see them thinking to themselves "never again" and acting accordingly.  But for Joe Blow on the street - which includes almost all of us - I've always thought the Trump fixation is allowing him "to win" by dominating Joe Blow's mind set.  I prefer not to give the guy any of my mind share (or as little as possible).  This thread is an example - why does it really matter when or how Trump contracted Covid?   From this thread, it appears some think that (i) if it can be established that Trump was positive before the debate, and (ii) if he knew it, and (iii) if Trump debated anyway with the hope of infecting Biden, and (iv) if Biden subsequently comes down with Covid, then the electorate will be able to blame Trump, and (iv) if those all come true then Trump should be disqualified from even trying to get re-elected, etc. . . .   

I mean . . . is it really worth all that mind share and angst (especially since there are so many holes in that sequence that it makes a block of Swiss cheese look rock solid)?

Me?  I'm content with "you reap what you sow," and Trump getting Covid is that in spades.