'Do they think ... rules for everybody else do not apply to them?': Chris Wallace slams Trump's fami

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

‘Do they think ... rules for everybody else do not apply to them?’: Chris Wallace slams Trump’s family for refusing masks at debate

By Tim Elfrink
10/5/2020, 5:22:30 a.m.

Inside a Cleveland auditorium on Tuesday, everyone watching President Trump debate former vice president Joe Biden wore a mask, with a notable exception: Trump’s guests, including the first family.

On Sunday, the debate’s moderator, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, demanded answers from the Trump campaign for flouting the debate host’s rules — especially in light of Friday’s news that both the president and first lady Melania Trump later tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

“The rules from the Cleveland Clinic could not have been more clear. Everyone, everyone in the audience was to wear a mask,” Wallace said on “Fox News Sunday.” “After the first family came in, they all took off their masks. So did the White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Do they think that the health and safety rules for everybody else do not apply to them?”

When Steve Cortes, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, started arguing that the masks weren’t necessary because attendees had been tested for the virus, Wallace cut him off.

“Steve, it doesn’t matter. Everyone in that room was tested. The Cleveland Clinic regulation was, it didn’t matter. Everyone except for the three of us onstage was to wear a mask,” Wallace said.

The interview tied off a weekend in which Wallace was a central, often critical, voice in Fox News’s coverage of Trump’s positive diagnosis — a story that could personally affect him after he shared a stage with the president. Wallace has said he won’t be tested until Monday.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/05/chris-wallace-trump-masks-debate/

[Siwsan]

1. I'm going to classify that as a rhetorical question because we all know that's how they think

No doubt in my mind.

[LakeArenal]

2. Yes yes they do!!

[bottomofthehill]

3. In a word, Yes

The rules do not apply to them.

[JHB]

5. Uh, Chris? That's exactly what they think. It's been obvious for years.

Are you just learning this now?

[DBoon]

9. or are you just becoming outraged about this now?

for forty years, he has stiffed contractors, cheated on his taxes, and failed to pay back loans.

His entire life is someone who thinks the rules don't apply to him and got away with it

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. In a word, Yes

They think rules are for the little people and they mock and disdain their own base, even.

[durablend]

7. Same as the MAGAts on the street

"The rules/laws apply to everyone else--NOT ME!"

[frazzled]

8. Testing negative does not mean you don't still need to wear a mask and distance!

Why do they not understand this basic, common-sense principle?

A negative test today doesn't preclude a positive test tomorrow or the next day: and this is the most serious time that you can spread an incipient infection to others—the few days when the virus may be too small yet to detect.

[regnaD kciN]

10. And, of course, we now know...'

...that not everyone in that room was tested.