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BumRushDaShow

(129,653 posts)
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 11:58 AM Oct 2020

Chris Christie says he has tested positive for the coronavirus

Source: Washington Post

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who helped Trump prepare for Tuesday night's presidential debate, said Saturday morning he tested positive for the coronavirus.

"I just received word that I am positive for COVID-19," Christie wrote on Twitter. "I want to thank all of my friends and colleagues who have reached out to ask how I was feeling in the last day or two. I will be receiving medical attention today and will keep the necessary folks apprised of my condition."

Christie was in close contact with Trump and other senior officials in recent days. He attended the event in the Rose Garden last Saturday where Trump announced his pick to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. At one point, he was seen hugging Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who has tested positive for the virus.

On Sunday, Christie attended a news conference in the White House briefing room, along with press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the president's personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani. They could be seen huddling close to one another, none of them wearing masks.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/10/03/trump-covid-live-updates/#link-KUUNGIHCXNC37KF237NO3WCBCQ






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Governor Christie
@GovChristie
I just received word that I am positive for COVID-19. I want to thank all of my friends and colleagues who have reached out to ask how I was feeling in the last day or two. I will be receiving medical attention today and will keep the necessary folks apprised of my condition.
11:37 AM · Oct 3, 2020


ETA - Christie's exposure at the Rose Garden event -

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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
Video of the ACB announcement event on Saturday at the WH featuring Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who has now tested positive for Covid-19. via @bubbaprog
12:18 PM · Oct 2, 2020
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Chris Christie says he has tested positive for the coronavirus (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 OP
Not good jpak Oct 2020 #1
Only Bill Barr and Mike Pence to go from Trump's super spreader court packing party. Botany Oct 2020 #2
Was Rudy Giuliani there? TexasBushwhacker Oct 2020 #8
Rudy helped with debate prep, just like Christie. trump probably had a pretty heavy catbyte Oct 2020 #16
Same here. I'm still on edge over Biden's exposure. n/t Chemisse Oct 2020 #42
Get em RBG Traildogbob Oct 2020 #28
I guess this is what he meant by cleaning out the swamp. Waiting for Barr still_one Oct 2020 #3
Best one I've heard lately! Lol! patricia92243 Oct 2020 #10
........................... still_one Oct 2020 #19
Swamp fever takin hold. Traildogbob Oct 2020 #29
I'll never forget nor forgive the way he slammed President Obama Auggie Oct 2020 #4
Especially since how Obama was there for him every step of the way after Sandy. catbyte Oct 2020 #15
the morbidly obese guy is as much an opportunist as the Con he supports onetexan Oct 2020 #24
I don't think he will get the WALTER REED treatment yuiyoshida Oct 2020 #5
My God they are dropping like flies. Ohiogal Oct 2020 #6
thanks to Typhoid Donnie mpcamb Oct 2020 #40
He's going to have a rough time, what with his weight, age... brush Oct 2020 #7
Was Christie at the spreader event for Amy Barrett or just with trump for debate prep? CNN iluvtennis Oct 2020 #9
BOTH BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #13
Thank you for the answer back - much appreciated. nt iluvtennis Oct 2020 #33
High-risk asshole engaged in high-risk behavior dalton99a Oct 2020 #11
Oh, well then. He certainly thought that Trump would be a great President. NNadir Oct 2020 #12
Christie expected to be AG kiri Oct 2020 #26
I couldn't care less what he does now, but I do resent NJ tax money going to him. NNadir Oct 2020 #27
I'll bet Rudy is crapping his pants right about now, too. catbyte Oct 2020 #14
Isn't that another symptom of COVID? 😆. (n/t) Lefta Dissenter Oct 2020 #18
... BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #21
probably trying to kill the virus with alcohol internally rurallib Oct 2020 #20
This old ass Traildogbob Oct 2020 #31
Rudy is next to come down with Covid, for sure Miigwech Oct 2020 #39
True equality would give Marthe48 Oct 2020 #17
Was he positive when he was sitting on the ABC debate panel? Did he infect the rest of them? eggplant Oct 2020 #22
A bunch keep claiming they were getting "negatives" BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #25
I would love to see him rushed off to a hospital in NYC, VWolf Oct 2020 #23
Ever since I saw "Hamilton" BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #30
There's that and that Christie likely ordered his minions to close the FT Lee lanes that access the karynnj Oct 2020 #47
I am in Philly so we heard all about his antics daily BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #48
He's at a well regarded Morristown, NJ hospital karynnj Oct 2020 #46
Did anyone have Christie on their Saturday Superspreader bingo card? SunSeeker Oct 2020 #32
Do you have the card with Ghouliani on it? BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #34
LOL SunSeeker Oct 2020 #35
haaa!! Roc2020 Oct 2020 #43
"Me too!" C Moon Oct 2020 #36
Hard to have any sympathy at all for these fools. LudwigPastorius Oct 2020 #37
nobody cares about that gelatinous lying shitberg bringthePaine Oct 2020 #38
As obese he is I would think he is at high risk. n/t totodeinhere Oct 2020 #41
I'm pretty sure that it's a medical FACT The King of Prussia Oct 2020 #44
NOW do you understand the utter stupidity of your recent interaction with infected people at CTyankee Oct 2020 #45

Botany

(70,608 posts)
2. Only Bill Barr and Mike Pence to go from Trump's super spreader court packing party.
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:00 PM
Oct 2020

Any other republican senators there?

catbyte

(34,478 posts)
16. Rudy helped with debate prep, just like Christie. trump probably had a pretty heavy
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:15 PM
Oct 2020

viral load by then. That's why I won't relax about Joe until next week.

Traildogbob

(8,830 posts)
28. Get em RBG
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:51 PM
Oct 2020

One by one. Fat people do not fair well. I did not know the virus passed through the anus and close contact to one is deadly. Close contact, I meant full head insertion.
Please, Barr, Graham, Turtle, and Trump family. Go visit him. Get your daily ass kissing in. It’s safe, no mask required. Don’t be a snowflake. It’s a hoax, like a cold, take some of those millions of Hydroxy we paid for and get in there to cheer him up. Be Best. America is on its way to getting great again, pre trump great. Give me a Red Hat. Karma is making it so.

onetexan

(13,069 posts)
24. the morbidly obese guy is as much an opportunist as the Con he supports
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:37 PM
Oct 2020

which is why he won't slither quietly away. He keeps groveling to the Con to stay relevant. I believe he still harbors POTUS dreams.

brush

(53,922 posts)
7. He's going to have a rough time, what with his weight, age...
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:03 PM
Oct 2020

and asthma. Republicans seem incapable of following the advice of doctors and scientists as to masks, social distancing and large, unmasked gatherings.

Christie might not survive this, trump either for that matter.

iluvtennis

(19,881 posts)
9. Was Christie at the spreader event for Amy Barrett or just with trump for debate prep? CNN
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:04 PM
Oct 2020

answered my question. He was in contact with trump at the Amy Barrett event as well as debate prep.

BumRushDaShow

(129,653 posts)
13. BOTH
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:11 PM
Oct 2020

Double dose!

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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
Video of the ACB announcement event on Saturday at the WH featuring Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who has now tested positive for Covid-19. via @bubbaprog
12:18 PM · Oct 2, 2020

NNadir

(33,568 posts)
12. Oh, well then. He certainly thought that Trump would be a great President.
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:10 PM
Oct 2020

It couldn't happen to a nicer fat assed criminally minded fat fuck.

kiri

(797 posts)
26. Christie expected to be AG
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:46 PM
Oct 2020

CC thought he had a bridge to become attorney general, after being the loyal burger-fetcher. Why he remains a puppet to Trumpio is a mystery after the worst slam of his life.

BTW, gets a nice pension from New Jersey taxpayers, but what does he actually do nowadays?

NNadir

(33,568 posts)
27. I couldn't care less what he does now, but I do resent NJ tax money going to him.
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:50 PM
Oct 2020

He's a disgrace to my state.

Traildogbob

(8,830 posts)
31. This old ass
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 01:00 PM
Oct 2020

Has been wearing depends for years. He was shitting his pants way before Covid.
The scent will be the same.

 

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
39. Rudy is next to come down with Covid, for sure
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 02:23 PM
Oct 2020

Covid was trump party swag ... Satan's #1 gift this year

Marthe48

(17,045 posts)
17. True equality would give
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:18 PM
Oct 2020

every single victim of Covid-19 a headline. We wouldn't just hear about the asses who willfully ignored the science and medical guidelines.

BumRushDaShow

(129,653 posts)
25. A bunch keep claiming they were getting "negatives"
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:42 PM
Oct 2020

But I expect that was from the less-accurate "rapid tests".

The super-spreader Rose Garden event happened the Saturday before the Tuesday debate. CNN has been discussing the 72-hour "gap" of apparent "confirmation" of a positive and the reporting of it late Thursday night and Friday morning.

I.e., 45 apparently tested positive on Wednesday (probably when Hope Hicks tested positive) and he let that ride all the way to the end of the week. I expect that all the others like Christie, who were in contact with them, were ignoring what happened with Hicks and/or did not do the "full" nasal swab PCR test, until it was too late.

VWolf

(3,944 posts)
23. I would love to see him rushed off to a hospital in NYC,
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:33 PM
Oct 2020

only to get stuck in MASSIVE traffic in Fort Lee.

That would be karmic justice.

BumRushDaShow

(129,653 posts)
30. Ever since I saw "Hamilton"
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 12:54 PM
Oct 2020

I *finally* got the context of "Ft. Lee" in Jersey.





(and I've been back and forth over the GW bridge there MANY times)

karynnj

(59,507 posts)
47. There's that and that Christie likely ordered his minions to close the FT Lee lanes that access the
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:50 AM
Oct 2020

bridge causing a city wide traffic jam on the first day of school.

BumRushDaShow

(129,653 posts)
48. I am in Philly so we heard all about his antics daily
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:21 PM
Oct 2020

like misusing state resources to fly a state chopper to his son's ballgames or of course, staying at a state beach when they were closed to the public during a budget standoff (generating all sorts of hilarious memes).

And that ASS cancelled the NY/NJ transit tunnel project, that WAS funded by the federal government, and had to repay hundreds of millions out of taxpayer's money because of that. It could have taken so much congestion off the GW Bridge.

He's a bully and always was one. We are South Jersey's media market and whenever he was out and about, we heard it and saw it.

karynnj

(59,507 posts)
46. He's at a well regarded Morristown, NJ hospital
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:48 AM
Oct 2020

This is a hospital I know well - as my three daughters were born there.

SunSeeker

(51,744 posts)
32. Did anyone have Christie on their Saturday Superspreader bingo card?
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 01:24 PM
Oct 2020

I still waiting on Barr and Roberts to be called.

LudwigPastorius

(9,191 posts)
37. Hard to have any sympathy at all for these fools.
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 02:19 PM
Oct 2020

They willfully turned the White House rose garden into a giant petri dish.
44. I'm pretty sure that it's a medical FACT
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 06:19 PM
Oct 2020

That anyone whose BMI is higher than their IQ is fcuked if they get the virus.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
45. NOW do you understand the utter stupidity of your recent interaction with infected people at
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 11:22 AM
Oct 2020

the White House? You are a fool, Chris Christie! An utter and depraved FOOL!

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