Bad Things Happen in the Rose Garden
It’s appalling to even contemplate that they may have intended to infect their opponent mere weeks before the election. But I believe that was exactly the mentality at play.
It feels like the intensity of mental whiplash wrought by this current news cycle is at a level impossible to withstand. As I write, the President* is hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with the coronavirus — the same ailment, we’ll recall, that he has spent much of this year trumping up as a hoax, an illness that “affects virtually nobody”, a pesky bug that will disappear “like a miracle”. Maskless attendees of the September 26 gloat-a-thon in the Rose Garden announcing SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett also have tested positive, as have 11 staffers, three journalists, individuals who prepped the President for his Tuesday night shitshow of a debate performance against Joe Biden, and God knows how many others.
As soon as I learned of the President’s diagnosis — courtesy of our daughter bursting into our bedroom at 1 a.m. on Friday morning, nearly giving us heart attacks — I became 110% convinced that the President and his minions not only knew of Hope Hicks’ condition but most likely also his own prior to the debate. (I’m also sure that there’s…
