Good on him. This is what actually owning and standing by your words looks like, people. I'm glad he's not apologizing for what he said.
As for THE big news story this morning...
No, it will not garner sympathy on a level that swings the election. The reaction has not been especially sympathetic outside of conservative corners. And why would it be? If you knowingly spread misinformation to toe the party line, putting the lives of millions in jeopardy, there is no defending you.
Boris Johnson had not spent 6 months openly mocking the virus before he was infected. Trump's brand is built on it.
This. If it turns out he lied about having this, knowing how many people in this country have gotten sick with and died from it, that'd be a line he could never come back from. His cult would shrug it off, sure, but the rest of the country would just add that to their ever-growing list of reasons to get him out of here. That would be a level of sheer cruelty and callousness that there'd be no words to adequately describe.
While I don't believe it to be untrue, it didn't stop my mind from thinking how it could be a tactic, but for a different outcome: According to reports, Trump is acutely aware that things look grim regarding his reelection. Of course he can't stand losing. So a Covid infection would create a path out of it: Claim the infection impaired his health with long-term consequences and it would render him unable to govern for a second term.
I was just sharing this same theory elsewhere earlier. Yep. He loves to bluster and talk tough, but he always backs down like a coward when push comes to shove (look how he tried to act like a big tough guy in his tweets a few years back where he was bragging about how he'd destroy North Korea and everything. Now he gets "love letters" from Kim Jong-Un). I can easily see him using this as a means to quietly slip out.
(And then he'd also probably spend that time trying to arrange an escape to another country to avoid prosecution. Hopefully, if he tried that, that part of his plan wouldn't work.)
And it's downright pathetic to have to question whether he does or not.
This. See, people, THIS is why lying about stuff like the crowd size at your inauguration, or other seemingly "unimportant" things of that sort, matters. Because when you're lying about any and everything, no matter how small, it makes it that much harder to trust you when it comes to the important stuff.
We can't trust one single thing out of the WH, including when they knew that people within that circle were ill.
Trump started feeling ill on Wednesday, meaning he was spreading it in the days before that (including the Tuesday in question). And God only knows when the rest of them were symptomatic and covering up.
These people are the worst trash in the world.
Yep. And yet we've got people out there who are mad that we're not showing any sympathy for Trump over this. It's hard to be sympathetic towards someone who didn't give a shit about a virus that killed so many, or who's shown a complete and total lack of compassion and sympathy towards people in any other times of crisis.
Treat others like you want to be treated, people. It's really that simple.