President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania have both tested positive for the COVID-19 novel Coronavirus. Hours after Trump revealed the result on Twitter, Bill Whittle analyzes the consequences of various scenarios for the presidential election campaign, for the Constitution, and for the country.
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Can you imagine how pissed off the Canadian Anthrax lady is right now. All that effort and a life jail sentence and the virus gets too him first! lol.
Reportedly Trump was on prophylactic Hydroxychloroquine and the FDA talking him into discontinuing it. If that’s true heads may be rolling. It also looks like Trump has volunteered for an experimental treatment the is cleared in Israel but not fully cleared in the USA.
I think this will work very well for the President. The campaign will go digital. The hospital has a full communications suite for the President to use meters from his bed.
This will wrong foot the leftists, the presidential debates organization (which is not on his side). It will wrong foot the rioters and protestors. The parks around the hospital are forested. You can’t even see the building or protest nor can you throw things at the cops. Too many branches. The crowd ends up too spread out and unfocused.
The people currently exercising their constitutional right to peaceably assemble outside Walter Reed Medical Center right now are holding prayer sessions for the President and otherwise cheering him on.
I know the leftists are pushed so far back they may as well not be there but Trump people are free to get in close. Good sign that Washington police are ignoring the leftist mayor.
Just imagine for a moment that it was President Biden who came down with covid and he invokes the 25 adm.. Now imagine the sheer terror in the population of an acting President Harris. Let that sink in for a moment.
The thought alone all but ensured Trump’s reelection.
You mean there are people out there who hadn’t already thought about that based on Biden’s condition?
No. But it does bring it into crystal clarity does it not?
The President is the most protected man in America, yet instead of realizing it is impossible to hide from a virus, the advocates of mass mask wearing and lock-downs will instead claim just the opposite.
Update on President’s condition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYi2rb9Bl_o
There was a guy on the radio up here listing the President’s co-morbidities ( and I think rolled them into a “risk factor”) giving the “increased numbers of deaths among men and age group” as well as weight and some “high calcium amounts in his arteries” which qualified as a heart condition in his opinion.
There were also a few callers to the other show with slipping foil hats thinking that it was all just fake and the President wasn’t sick at all. One thought it was him trying to get out of the debate (apparently he thought the president though he did not do well). There was a comment or two that did not go to the “hope he dies” level but got as far as “he deserved it because of all of his lies” and “not taking the ‘scam’ seriously”.
One person did insightfully point out that the President was living by his word. He said the country had to stay open and at work, was at work and meeting other people.
The show host asked, as I got out of the car, if anyone in the world was in more of a bubble than the President. I easily thought that homebody retired people would see far fewer people than an active president with all of his staff and visitors.
The hard part of the hoax claim is convincing everyone else in the White House and government medical community to go along with it. But the Swiss cheese heads who dream up such nonsense are incapable of critical thinking, so to them it all makes sense.
I suspect the hoaxer didn’t think that far (hard to when suffering from TDS) but would also claim that all of the President’s flunkies, lackeys and such are all in on his plans would go along, ignoring of course all of the leaks, fired book writers and that backstabber with the recordings of Melania.
Was Covfefe a prophecy?
Can a person be elected posthumously? Has this happened before? Has there actually been a precedent set for this kind of thing? Mr. Ott, you being the Constitutional scholar here, what say ye?
I’m not Scott, but I’ll take a stab at it. Closest was Horace Greeley (see my comment below), but he lost. The constitution doesn’t explicitly state how it would be handled if a presidential candidate dies before election day, but I’ll bet that could be litigated since there is all this early voting already going on which is not provided for in the constitution.
I think it might be up to the states, because the states determine how their electors will vote in the electoral college. Each state’s election laws specify things like the last day the name on the ballot can be changed (think we’re well past that for every state). There are probably precedents in elections for Congress, but again each state could be different. Might get interesting.
I think there were a few cases of representatives dying before the election but too late to be replaced on the ballot. One recently in Missouri maybe, with the incumbent candidate’s wife taking his place when he was still elected.
Anonymous: Good. He’s got COVID. I wish Trump dies.
Me: I suggest you do so first. We’ll wait.
Re: Covid-19, please see my comments under the Deblasio video regarding a cure, which the Vice President at least knows about, and hopefully the President and his doctor are already implementing.
Regarding the playbook if the President dies, he will still be on the ballot because it’s too close to the election to change it. Of course the Vice President would actually be inaugurated (and would choose his successor as VP), but Donald Trump’s name would still be on the ballot. In which case people would still crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump again. (Plus all the stuff Bill said about never-Trumpers and so forth.)
Horace Greeley is the only presidential candidate to die during the Presidential election process. He died between election day and electoral college day. He lost in a landslide to the incumbent, President Grant.
Reading up on Horace Greeley, I see that no votes were cast for him in the electoral college. Some went to his VP, but not all. There does not appear to be an explicit constitutional provision for this.
Is it truly positive or only false positive? I am not sure which. Both the panic data AND the test results are all questionable. I will believe it is serious only after Trump succumbs to Covid-19.
The demented left of left did their usual “This new thing means we need to stop the election and simply declare Harris/Biden winner with Biden eventually being replaced by Pelosi.” It means no such thing. Trump is not dead yet and is not dead until he is really dead. The likelihood of such a serious outcome is very very low.
Looks like the Covid-19 diagnosis is for real.
I cannot find any reference to the meaning of “mild symptoms”. That could be anything from the sniffles, to sneezing to a mild fever. Either of those symptoms are common when I am as sleep deprived as is often reported for The President. I will only believe the validity of the diagnosis if his symptoms actually worsen beyond “mild”.
Elevated temperature, fatigue, sniffles…. in other words generic flu symptoms. As long as Trump can function as POTUS, the symptoms are mild. Not 100% for sure Covid-19 but getting closer.
Prayers up for POTUS and FLOTUS.
This will be as Bill states the case everyone is watching. That could have (should?) Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. Notice they never really discussed how sick they were. Just how hard it was to quarantine in a hotel in Australia.
That was early on and full reporting would have messed up the shut it down narrative. After all they are both older as well.
I believe that they will be OK, but praying none the less.