[akiddoc]

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.

Once Hicks tested positive, Trump should have gone into quarantine. Period. He continued to expose others. I'm guessing Atlas told him otherwise. Hiring Atlas was irresponsible, listening to Atlas is irresponsible, and exposing others to illness is immoral. Whether he announced a first positive test or not doesn't matter too much since it seems the second test came back quickly, but his behavior even prior to that is reprehensible.

[akiddoc]

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.

Once Hicks tested positive, Trump should have gone into quarantine. Period. He continued to expose others. I'm guessing Atlas told him otherwise. Hiring Atlas was irresponsible, listening to Atlas is irresponsible, and exposing others to illness is immoral. Whether he announced a first positive test or not doesn't matter too much since it seems the second test came back quickly, but his behavior even prior to that is reprehensible.