Trump's New Jersey event showed perilous neglect for his staff, supporters - and himself

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/04/trump-covid-new-jersey-campaign-event-perilous-neglect-staff-supporters-himself

Trump’s New Jersey event showed perilous neglect for his staff, supporters – and himself

Ed Pilkington in New York

Sun 4 Oct 2020 08.00 BSTLast modified on Sun 4 Oct 2020 08.56 BST

On Thursday afternoon Donald Trump held a roundtable of 19 top Republican donors at Bedminster, his 36-hole golf course in New Jersey, where he vented his frustrations about how his push for a rapid vaccine against Covid-19 was being undermined by the deep state.
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The president’s attack on scientists within his own administration seems to have impressed the donors around the table. But what they didn’t know at that time, because Trump did not tell them, was that just a few hours earlier one of Trump’s closest aides, Hope Hicks, had herself tested positive for the disease.
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But the outpouring of goodwill has not prevented questions being asked about how, when and why the president contracted this potentially life-threatening illness that has already claimed the lives of at least 208,000 Americans. At the center of these inquiries is the Bedminster fundraising event, which the White House allowed to go ahead even after it became known that Hicks had fallen ill.

Many of the finer details of what happened between 1.07pm on Thursday, when Marine One took off from the White House with Trump on board, and 5.55pm when it landed back at base after the New Jersey round trip, are not yet known. But there is sufficient information already in the public domain to suggest that the handling of the Bedminster event bore many of the hallmarks of the Trump administration’s widely-criticised response to the pandemic since its inception.
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A similarly casual stance was taken at Bedminster. When Hicks’ illness was detected, several of the White House staff who had been set to travel to New Jersey were pulled off the trip, including press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. Yet Trump, who should have been subject to the most stringent safeguards, travelled on to the fundraiser regardless.

Other facets of the administration’s lax response to the pandemic over the past nine months were also on show on Thursday, not least the absence of masks. As part of his relentless downplaying of the virus, Trump has tended to eschew masks, rarely wearing one himself in public and mocking his presidential rival Joe Biden for doing so at this week’s televised debate.

Reports suggest that Trump, true to form, did not wear a mask on Thursday, not on Marine One and Air Force One en route to New Jersey, and not at the roundtable nor the larger gathering of about 100 supporters that followed.
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1. Buried under all of this? The campaign must really be totally broke. And Vlad must not be

clamoring to fill in the hole this time.

Why else would he not have cancelled a meeting with 19 donors when he knew he was sick?

[3Hotdogs]

2. I wonder................. 19 assholes in Bedminster.

They sure got to own the lib'tards.

Yes, Agnes. Its
sarcasm.