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DUers do you believe that the Killa Con (Original Post) malaise Oct 2020 OP
I asked that weeks ago, and it looks like very few. TreasonousBastard Oct 2020 #1
Nope Rorey Oct 2020 #2
Yes, Ma'am The Magistrate Oct 2020 #3
The way he lies he would feign anything malaise Oct 2020 #6
He Lies To Enhance Himself, Ma'am The Magistrate Oct 2020 #17
No...but I do believe he had another underlying health issue HipChick Oct 2020 #4
Well he did have that earlier strange trip to WR malaise Oct 2020 #9
Nope. Either he didn't have it at all, or he had it weeks longer than Squinch Oct 2020 #5
No OLDMDDEM Oct 2020 #7
Don't know, don't care. dware Oct 2020 #8
Yeah. Turin_C3PO Oct 2020 #10
I believe he thought he did and had been exposed... Hugin Oct 2020 #11
The turtle does look seriously ill malaise Oct 2020 #12
Yes mcar Oct 2020 #13
who knows! I am currently tending toward doubt. NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #14
I think he was sick...is sick stillcool Oct 2020 #15
Who knows with this cabal Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #16
Never did. Mossfern Oct 2020 #18
Yes, because of the number of ppl around him who got it. but, I think he had a VERY mild case Thekaspervote Oct 2020 #19
That is what I find so troubling malaise Oct 2020 #21
Yes. GoCubsGo Oct 2020 #20
I have noticed the aircraft stairs problems but he always had problems malaise Oct 2020 #22
I don't think we can be sure. onecaliberal Oct 2020 #23
Yes; I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories. brooklynite Oct 2020 #24
Not a conspiracy theory - a genuine question given malaise Oct 2020 #27
Yes it is... brooklynite Oct 2020 #28
Probably had it. moondust Oct 2020 #25
Yes, he got the powerful meds very early and is staying on the steroids through Nov 3 wishstar Oct 2020 #26

The Magistrate

(95,256 posts)
3. Yes, Ma'am
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:08 PM
Oct 2020

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)
6. The way he lies he would feign anything
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:10 PM
Oct 2020

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)
17. He Lies To Enhance Himself, Ma'am
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:17 PM
Oct 2020

Feigning illness presents him as weak.

Not even recovery erases that.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
4. No...but I do believe he had another underlying health issue
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:09 PM
Oct 2020

instead, that we were being lied to about....but I was accused of being a Conspiracy theorist...

Squinch

(51,025 posts)
5. Nope. Either he didn't have it at all, or he had it weeks longer than
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:10 PM
Oct 2020

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.

OLDMDDEM

(1,577 posts)
7. No
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:10 PM
Oct 2020

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)
8. Don't know, don't care.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:11 PM
Oct 2020

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)
10. Yeah.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:12 PM
Oct 2020

I don’t 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)
11. I believe he thought he did and had been exposed...
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:13 PM
Oct 2020

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.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
15. I think he was sick...is sick
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:17 PM
Oct 2020

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.

malaise

(269,200 posts)
21. That is what I find so troubling
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:41 PM
Oct 2020

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)
20. Yes.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:22 PM
Oct 2020

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)
27. Not a conspiracy theory - a genuine question given
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 05:36 PM
Oct 2020

the reality that we're dealing with a pathological LIAR

brooklynite

(94,757 posts)
28. Yes it is...
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 06:12 PM
Oct 2020

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)
25. Probably had it.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 05:22 PM
Oct 2020

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)
26. Yes, he got the powerful meds very early and is staying on the steroids through Nov 3
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 05:27 PM
Oct 2020

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.

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