Robert Redfield intervened to "clear" Pence for the debate.

[Nevilledog]

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Tweet text:Norman Ornstein
@NormOrnstein
Robert Redfield intervened to "clear" Pence for the debate. He had no business doing so. If Pence does have Covid-- and the pinkeye, the abrupt cancellation of his Indiana trip are warning signs-- Redfield needs to resign immediately. He has taken politicization of CDC to extreme
8:21 PM · Oct 8, 2020

[spanone]

1. this entire administration needs to be incarcerated

[Enterstageleft]

3. I'd prefer incinerated!

[lagomorph777]

28. Incapacitated

Constipated
macerated

[jayfish]

2. If He Has Covid,...

Pence needs to resign.

[Lucinda]

6. +1

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. Which he will never do, the goal was to infect Kamala

[Captain Zero]

26. Why they were arguing against the distancing and

The plexiglass shield. Had to be. When was Pence's last negative test?

[lagomorph777]

29. He needs to go to jail for attempted assassination.

[babylonsister]

4. Wow. Not right at all. nt

[Lucinda]

5. ...

[madaboutharry]

7. What did he exactly do by intervening?

That is what I want to know. And why was an intervention needed?

[Nevilledog]

9. I'm guessing he said he was good to go.

Probably didn't test and said "there were no positive results".

[JI7]

8. What does that mean ? That Pence did not take a Covid test given by the debate organizers ?

[DallasNE]

24. Pence Was Low Energy Throughout The Debate

And he made a big deal of saying this morning that he and his wife tested negative. And what was that fly feasting on for 2 minutes.

Nothing scientific there but taken together do they indicate Pence was ill? That's above my pay grade.

[VivaResitance]

10. Here is the thing

Pence and Trump are counting on you not knowing when they became infected. So if it does come out that he was INFECTED during the debate and he KNEW he was he can claim that it was sometime later.

The whole thing is a shell game and with a compliant right wing media they get away with it. The odds that he was not infected is pretty low based on how he looked.

He looked like a melting candle and his eye was all sorts of messed up. What I can't understand though is why would you put your wife in that position by pulling her on stage with you?

They aren't stupid and if I didn't know any better I would say they are getting sick on purpose just to try and justify some fake herd immunity that some of their officials were pushing.

[calimary]

19. Welcome to DU, VivaResitance!

By now, I'd suspect them of anything and everything. Nothing is too outlandish or bizarre.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

30. Loved " his eye was all sorts of messed up"... Automatically think to the why?

Because winning is paramount? So you can be convinced that your health and the health of others is less important. That's some powerful shit. Hard to even grasp being under that magnitude of mind control. Or having the power to create that level of mind control. SO far beyond keeping one's seat as many think it is. Or fear of a trump twitter lashing. So much more existential.

[Maru Kitteh]

32. His wife is likely already infected, was certainly already exposed, besides

she really, really, REALLY wants to be first lady - more so even than Callista Gingrich and Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri did.

[Leghorn21]

12. Am I the only one who read this as "Robert Redford"?

Yep, I was some kind of confused for a moment there

Anyway, even if he didn’t do this, he is still nevertheless THE WORST

RIP CDC

[Nevilledog]

13. He wishes.

[VivaResitance]

15. All I can say is

Hail Hydra!

[MissB]

18. Me.

I was similarly confused.

[dewsgirl]

20. I read it that way too.

They are all craven monsters and each one needs to be replaced.

[Awsi Dooger]

21. You're not the only one

I was initially shocked

[Midnight Writer]

23. Yep.

[karin_sj]

25. I did too

Took me a few re-reads to figure it out!

[Marius25]

14. So they put Kamala's life at risk.

I knew it was a terrible idea to have an in person debate.

[moonscape]

36. And that worthless plexi screen. I'm concerned about

her and Biden being on that bus together. Have faith they are being super careful and know what they're doing, but will feel lots better in a few weeks ...

[Barbara2423]

16. The fly was trying to warn everyone.

[LeftInTX]

17. Oh gosh! At first, I read Robert Redford

[Cracklin Charlie]

22. What?

What the hell is wrong with these, I guess, people?

Election Day cannot get here fast enough.

[Captain Zero]

27. No more in person debates. They can't be trusted.

Period. Not transparent. Not forthcoming. No contact tracing. No reliable documentation of testing and results.

[Crash2Parties]

31. Team Trump is using bio warfare against their opponents.

As incumbents they have nothing to lose - assuming it stayed secret because germs are mysterious when you don't Believe in science.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

33. i guess the letter from his predecessor that everyone was talking about yesterday

did have the desired effect.

[hedda_foil]

34. I'm stumped. What letter from which predecessor? I obviously missed something.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

35. heard him yesterday on fresh air and was posted here.

begged him to stand up. said the epidemic was 'a slaughter'

[hedda_foil]

37. Thanks.