Here's a Theory: Maybe Trump Wasn't Getting Tested for COVID at All

[babylonsister]

Here’s a Theory: Maybe Trump Wasn’t Getting Tested for COVID at All
What if they won’t say when his last negative result was because there wasn’t one?
By Tom Scocca
Oct 06, 2020
7:46 PM

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There is one question that is both elementary and essential: When was the president’s last negative COVID test? Doctors refuse to answer this. “I don’t want to go backwards,” Conley said Monday when he was asked about it. This position makes no sense as a matter of medicine or basic public interest: Knowing when the president last tested negative would help everyone understand both how rapidly his illness has been developing and how many other people—including Joe Biden, at the first presidential debate—may have been exposed to infection by being around him. The answer could, among other things, determine whether or not both candidates should be taken off the campaign trail.

So why not tell us? “I don’t want to go backwards” is what a politician says when asked about a scandal. What could the scandal be? There’s some speculation that the doctors and the White House are dodging the question because Trump tested positive earlier than he’s willing to admit—that he went out to a fundraiser at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday, if not to the debate two days before, while concealing a positive test result. This would explain the garbled timeline the doctors presented and retracted over the weekend, where they said the diagnosis was already 72 hours old, then claimed to have misspoken. It would be a satisfyingly spectacular account of presidential depravity.

But there’s a competing theory that seems even more plausible and more perfectly Trumpian:

Ed MD
@notdred
It might be that Trump hates getting tested so they haven’t been testing him frequently and instead test the people around him. Hence they’re not saying when he was last negative.
8:59 AM · Oct 5, 2020

The more I consider it, the more compelling it seems. Trump wasn’t getting tested for the virus at all. What reason do we have to believe that he was getting tested? Just that the White House said he was. We already know what the White House’s word is worth, about everything having to do with the president’s activities or the pandemic.

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/trump-covid-negative-test-a-theory.html

[Thekaspervote]

1. Very possible..he could have had everyone else test daily that he came into contact with instead

[JDC]

2. I would definitely believe this.

[catbyte]

3. I don't think it's even a theory. If he had been testing negative, he would've broadcasted it.

[PatSeg]

4. This actually makes sense

The nasal test is really nasty and he has even said as much. So if the president doesn't want one, how do you force him to take it?

[C_U_L8R]

5. Once again, the press secretary proves to be a liar.

She claimed that Trump is not only tested every day, but he's tested multiple times every day. That is a lie.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/21/trump-tested-coronavirus-multiple-times-day-375957

[Leghorn21]

6. A tweeter has concluded that

”I think he paid someone to take his test for him.”

[babylonsister]

9. Haha! Could happen! nt

[Generic Brad]

7. Maybe he's never been tested

Does anyone really think he would ever consent to putting anything up his nose other than cocaine or Adderall?

[moonscape]

16. Early on he complained how

unpleasant the nose swab was. I think he could have had it once, then just demanded others have it and maybe got the easy inaccurate Abbott test on occasion.

[underpants]

8. Man Woman Person Camera TV

You’d think he could pretty much nail that everyday by now

[BumRushDaShow]

10. That was my thought from day one of this controversy

Try to imagine getting someone as hyper as him to actually sit still long enough to do a rapid test (which I think is a sputum swab), let alone do a nasal swab?

Ain't happening!

I expect that once Hope Hicks tested positive, one of his medical staff (I assume a doctor travels with him in the entourage) was able to get a rapid test and that came out positive, afterwhich they probably got him to finally do a nasal swab when he got back to D.C., and confirmed it and we heard the late night Thursday/early Friday morning result.

[rickford66]

11. Maybe he had a friend take the tests for him ?

[cwydro]

17. Ha!

Well played.

[crickets]

12. It's completely plausible and highly likely. What idiots.

What utter foolish, arrogant idiots.

[Doreen]

13. My friend and I noticed that his right eye could not open all of the way.

It looked kind of droopy on the side. Could he have had a stroke?

[tinrobot]

15. Strokes do happen with covid

The mini-strokes he supposedly had would make covid strokes more likely.

[Doreen]

18. Makes sense.

[CentralMass]

14. Being the moron that he is he probably thought that everyone else getting tested would

keep him safe.