So we are assuming they are telling the truth...

[PCIntern]

And what are we to make of his imminent “miraculous recovery“? It’ll be the second coming of John Wayne. And no need to debate, or appear in public.

This fucking liar....why should we believe this?

I’m not saying it’s not true...I make no assumptions -sorry.

[kysrsoze]

1. Hicks was reportedly showing symptoms, but who knows anymore.

[PCIntern]

2. Love your screen name and

Exactly right you are.

[kysrsoze]

11. Thanks. I always like when people know what it is.

[DLCWIdem]

3. Doesn't matter. VOTE

[C_U_L8R]

4. You mean with the new Trump brand Miracle Vaccine?

[BannonsLiver]

5. I'm not

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14178252

But even if it is real it disrupts the race. Probably not to Trump’s benefit, but it is a curveball.

[LuckyCharms]

6. I agree that it is a possible ploy...

But this is a chain reaction type of thing where it is going to be hard to lie. It's too serious.

However, put nothing past him...

[BainsBane]

7. On Twitter he said he was quarantining

It could be a way of getting out of the debates. I don't necessarily think that Hicks doesn't have COVID, but Trump may be using it. Who knows.

[OhioBlue]

8. Right - I don't know what to believe. This could be his attempt to change the narrative

sorry - but I just don't believe anything coming out of this administration. The headlines have been horrible for him in the last few days and hours. He might just be trying to garner sympathy.

[Hugin]

9. Until something more significant happens to confirm... This is just distraction/lie #: 30,042.

Filed under, "Wolf!"

[alittlelark]

10. I figured he would make some excuse to get out of debates

But I did not expect this one.

[NanceGreggs]

12. I'm not buying.

I may change my mind depending on how things unfold over the next while. But for now, not convinced.

It keeps him off the campaign trail and the debate stage - which means no more of those embarrassing outbursts that have the GOP 'brand' in the shitter two months before an election. It really would help the Repubs if he were out of the way, instead of leaving piles of crap they have to 'clean up' every day.

[fishwax]

13. the only people who would buy a miraculous recovery are the people who are voting for him anyway

There is going to be plenty of coverage of his soft-pedaling of the disease, of his mockery of masks, of his administrations flouting of the rules, and of the high death tolls from the virus. And the odds are that, unfortunately, those numbers are going to be climbing in the next four weeks until the election. (Hospitalizations, which had been falling slowly and steadily from their late-July peak, have just started to tick up for the first time in about two months.)