Greg Sargent: The bombshell about Trump testing positive also implicates the Trump family

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Opinion: The bombshell about Trump testing positive also implicates the Trump family

By Greg Sargent
Columnist
December 2, 2021 at 10:03 a.m. EST

The Trump family has long treated rules and laws as nuisances that are only for the little people. And the news that Donald Trump tested positive for covid-19 before the first 2020 presidential debate shows that this tendency may be even more depraved and malevolent than you thought.

It turns out that this revelation, which comes in a new book by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, also implicates members of Trump’s family, including Melania Trump and Donald Trump Jr.

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In other words, everyone around Trump was apparently told he was potentially contagious, and he even appeared potentially symptomatic, even as Trump roared into the debate as if the opposite were true. If this is right, then what happened at the debate is even worse than you thought.

That’s because multiple people around Trump, including his wife, Melania Trump, and his kids Donald Jr. and Eric, all sat maskless at the Sept. 29 debate, according to contemporaneous reports, despite the fact that debate attendees were required to wear masks.

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Read more: https://wapo.st/3Eh5QFi

Original WaPo link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/02/trump-tested-positive-covid-debate-melania-family/

[Walleye]

1. In the meantime we were all getting our forehead scanned for a fever before we can enter any buildin

[greymattermom]

2. So did Trump get his forehead scanned?

Did he have a fever at the debate?

[Eugene]

7. The debates relied on the honor system.

They arrived late and went untested. Of course, when one expects Trump to act honorably, this is what happens.

[brush]

3. Don't leave out Javanka. Those twe were in the limo too on the ride to the debate...

just imagine, trump knew he was contagious, and the others probably knew too and they were all running around unmasked.

What a shitty family.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Nothing can be done about it - News Agencies

Need to be spending time on the JL VRA

[Baitball Blogger]

5. It explains why they walked into the debates with masks, and took them off once they

were seated.

[young_at_heart]

6. There's something called "Basic Decency"

The Trump family seems to be lacking this in just about all things!