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(43,049 posts)Not at all. Just another lie.
The Magistrate
(95,256 posts)Illness is not something the wretch would feign.
It is a shame he had medical care well beyond most people's reach.
malaise
(269,200 posts)I have my doubts. I always thought he'd feign it and use that as an excuse to withdraw.
Now I think he'll use it to leave the WH before the inauguration of Biden
The Magistrate
(95,256 posts)Feigning illness presents him as weak.
Not even recovery erases that.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)instead, that we were being lied to about....but I was accused of being a Conspiracy theorist...
malaise
(269,200 posts)Squinch
(51,025 posts)he said he did, and he had it at the debate with Biden. And THAT would be why he made sure to maximize the volume of his mouth gas in that debate room: an intentional plan to infect Joe.
The idea that he tested positive and then was cured within 5 days is absurd.
I believe he faked it to get sympathy after his poor performance at the first debate. He and I are the same age and I know I could not be running around like he has been since his stay at Walter Reed. My doctor told me that the drugs his doctors said he has taken are given only when you are in bed and as a last resort.
dware
(12,449 posts)if he faked it trying to get the sympathy vote, then it backfired badly, if he really had it, so what?
200,000+ deaths because of this shitbag in office, I couldn't care less if he had COVID.
Turin_C3PO
(14,083 posts)I dont believe he faked it because he would never admit willingly to being so weak as to have to go to the hospital. Plus, of all the employees at Walter Reed, it would have gotten out if he was faking it. The reason he seemingly recovered so quickly is that he got treatment that you or I would never get.
Hugin
(33,222 posts)The trip to Walter-Reed and the goat rodeo were cover for a seriously ill Moscow Mitch.
Of course, I have no way of backing this up. But, like all speculation it needs it's day in the sun.
malaise
(269,200 posts)It did him no political good to fake it.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,024 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)and has always been sick, but don't know about the covid. There's so much in the "I don't know" category these days.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)anything is possible
Mossfern
(2,566 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,803 posts)malaise
(269,200 posts)He appears to have way too many preconditions for a mild Covid. That and the planned Superman suit are the two things that have made me suspicious
GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)I also believe he has been drugged up to his gills since leaving the hospital, in order to cover it up, and to suppress the worst of the symptoms. I considered that he may have had some other health issue, rather than COVID-19, but he's still hacking and gasping and huffing and puffing from respiratory issues. He can't even make it up the steps of Air Force One. They've been going with a 757, and he has been exiting from the belly of the plane on many occasions.
malaise
(269,200 posts)climbing those.
onecaliberal
(32,916 posts)brooklynite
(94,757 posts)malaise
(269,200 posts)the reality that we're dealing with a pathological LIAR
brooklynite
(94,757 posts)Because it's not a question of "Trump lies"; its a question of how many aides, Doctors, etc. are going to lie along with him.
moondust
(20,014 posts)He's all about his alpha male/Mussolini/Superman image and getting COVID like the average Joe could be perceived as weakness. Seems unlikely he would fake it for that reason.
wishstar
(5,272 posts)He was put on the meds and some oxygen much earlier than average person which accounts for his recovery. But he absolutely could not have stopped or even tapered off the strong steroids after usual 10 day course when it was imperative that his condition be propped up and symptoms suppressed at least through election day.