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Mod: Only people who are not special wear masks. Obviously you are not, nor will you ever be, a Trump.
Trump’s debate guests refused to wear masks, flouting rules (
Washington Postlink): A little more than two days before she reported testing positive for the coronavirus, first lady
Melania Trump— as well as the president’s sons, daughters and several guests — violated safety protocols at the first presidential debate by taking off their masks after being seated in a live studio audience in
Cleveland.
Several in the president’s entourage continued without masks after an official from the
Cleveland Clinic, which co-hosted the debate, offered them masks in case they didn’t have any, according to debate moderator
Chris Wallace. “They waved them away,”
Wallace said on
Fox News on Friday morning.
It was a violation of rules that both campaigns agreed to,
Frank Fahrenkopf, head of the Commission on
Presidential Debates, said in an interview with
The Washington Post.
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“The first family came in wearing masks, but they took them off. The rules said you had to wear a mask,”
Fahrenkopf said. “Everyone in that hall was supposed to keep the mask on, other than the president,
Biden and
Chris Wallace.”
The official “offered them masks in case they didn’t have them, and they were waved away,”
Wallace, a
Fox News anchor, said Friday morning in an interview on the network. “And people in the hall noticed.”
Wallace’s account echoed that of
NBC reporter
MariannaSotomayor, who tweeted: “I witnessed a
Cleveland Clinic doctor remind
Trump’s guests to wear a mask, even offering them surgical ones on the off chance they didn’t have one. None of them put on a mask. The doctor looked frustrated as she stepped away, prompting a staffer to say, ‘That’s all you can do.’”
Mod: Special people don't need to be tested, either.Chris Wallace: Trump Arrived at Debate Too Late for COVID-19 Test (
Daily Beast link):
President Donald Trump arrived too late in
Cleveland on Tuesday to get a
COVID-19 test ahead of the debate, according to
Chris Wallace, the event’s moderator. Instead, the
Fox News star revealed, there was an “honor system” for the two campaigns to have arrived having already tested negative.
Wallace dropped that news while being interviewed Friday afternoon by fellow
Fox anchor
Bill Hemmer, who had also been in
Cleveland for the first
Trump-Biden showdown. Reading from a
Cleveland Clinic statement following the president’s positive coronavirus test,
Hemmer noted that it stressed that “Individuals traveling with both candidates including the candidates themselves had been tested and tested negative by their respective campaigns.”
“The difference was I arrived on Sunday, you arrived on Monday,”
Wallace explained. “They didn’t arrive until Tuesday afternoon. So for them to get tested, there wouldn’t have been enough time to have the test and have the debate at 9:00 that night. They didn’t show up until 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 in the afternoon.
Mod: Special people don't need to tell the suckers and marks.Trump Team Knew of Hicks’ Positive Test—but Went Ahead With Golf Club Fundraiser (
The Daily Beastlink): Just hours before
President Trump announced that he had tested positive for
COVID-19, he was mingling with supporters at a fundraising event held at his
New Jersey golf club—and even posed for personal photo-ops with them.
The event went ahead after the
White House learned that one of the president’s closest aides,
Hope Hicks, had tested positive for the disease,
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows confirmed Friday.
Meadows said they learnt of
Hicks’ positive test on Thursday night, “right as
Marine One was taking off” for the
New Jersey golf club. He said some people who’d had close contact were pulled off the flight.
The Daily Beast found a
Facebook post of one woman, finance executive
Patricia Bosisio Schechter, who said she had her photograph taken with the president at the ritzy event. She wrote: “As for all of you who have expressed concern for me, thank you for that. We were with him literally 30 seconds for our photo and other than that never close to him.” She added that she was “praying” for
Trump to pull through his illness.
On top of the personal photo-ops, local reports state that the roundtable event with dozens of supporters went ahead despite knowledge of
Hicks’ infection, and
Trump delivered a droplet-spraying speech. According to
The Washington Post,
Trump didn’t wear a mask at the golf club, or on the plane back to
Washington, D.C. The president then announced he’d tested positive after he had returned to the
White House.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said the state had begun contract-tracing for everyone who attended the event, writing: “We urge everyone who attended yesterday’s event in
Bedminster to take full precautions, including self-quarantining and getting tested for
COVID-19.”
Mod: Thoughts and prayers.
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