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yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 09:30 AM Jul 2020

Trump doesn't give a rat's ass that he killed Herman Cain by holding his Tulsa Rally [View all]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trumps-feels-no-regrets-about-herman-cains-from-he-may-have-caught-at-tulsa-rally-nyts-haberman/

Last month, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain attended President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa without wearing a face mask — then 40 days later, he died from COVID-19.

Trump’s campaign held the rally in Tulsa in an indoor venue where it did not require face masks or social distancing — but New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman says the president and his advisers have no regrets about how they held the rally.

During an interview, CNN host Alisyn Camerota wondered if there was any remorse about holding the rally in the middle of the pandemic against the advice of medical professionals.

“Knowing that Herman Cain went to that Tulsa rally — okay, the Tulsa rally that the medical experts in Tulsa did not want the president to hold because they knew it would be dangerous — he went as a healthy, 74-year-old man,” she said. “He was not sick, he was not positive for coronavirus that day. Then a month later, he is dead. Is there any feeling inside the White House of responsibility, of guilt, of connection to this?”

“This is not how the White House is is handling it,” Haberman replied. “The White House continues to have a blinder view of all of this. They do not look at actions they have taken as having an impact on people getting sick, whether that’s the Tulsa rally or a lack of sufficient testing across the country.”


Supposedly Herman Cain was a friend, although Trump doesn't actually have friends in the true sense of the word. Certainly he was a strong Trump supporter. Did Trump express any regrets at all about Herman Cain's death. The morning after all Trump could talk about was delaying the "rigged election."
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Trump killed Herman Cain .... end of story Botany Jul 2020 #1
cain purported to be a brain surgeo.m i assume he knew the risk rampartc Jul 2020 #2
Cain ran a pizza company PJMcK Jul 2020 #4
oops rampartc Jul 2020 #14
I think the death demographic is pivoting Turbineguy Jul 2020 #3
Or more like spreading? Are "essential workers" KPN Jul 2020 #7
Masks are in use more. Turbineguy Jul 2020 #10
Masks are rare in my area, even in businesses that "require" them. Maybe 30%. Midnight Writer Jul 2020 #15
It's a big system with a lot of latency and hysteresis. Turbineguy Jul 2020 #16
and many of those millions are living in a truth-proof bubble. lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #17
It's the people who are listening to the science who will turn this around. Turbineguy Jul 2020 #19
There's the silver lining. MAGATS will be culled from the herd. lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #20
Okay Trump did offer "prayers" to family of Herman Cain, who died of the "China Virus." yellowcanine Jul 2020 #5
Cain pamdb Jul 2020 #6
Cain was already sick during the Rushmore fiasco. He was reported KPN Jul 2020 #8
Yes Cain made his own choices. But the fact remains that Trump's choices are killing people. yellowcanine Jul 2020 #9
The term for "anti-masker" is "maskhole." lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #18
Haberman still doesn't understand something very elemental. Mike 03 Jul 2020 #11
+1 crickets Jul 2020 #12
This surprises nobody RainCaster Jul 2020 #13
It's not the WH, it's the sadistic thing in the WH. SammyWinstonJack Jul 2020 #21
Well, Cain chose to go to that rally. GoCubsGo Jul 2020 #22
Void of empathy. sarcasmo Jul 2020 #23
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