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Claustrum

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4. I said that since the Woodward tapes came out.

Reply to Towlie (Original post)

Fri Oct 23, 2020, 02:17 PM

Oct 2020

He only cared about the stock market. He didn't even care about COVID until the stock market crashed 10k points in a few days. Then he started doing those stupid COVID press conferences.

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Trump said he "played it down" to not create a panic. I think he meant a stock market panic. [View all] Towlie Oct 2020 OP

Of course that's what he meant nt intrepidity Oct 2020 #1

Yeah, that's been a common interpretation ever since he said it. TwilightZone Oct 2020 #2

Exactly Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2020 #6

There's No "Think" About It ProfessorGAC Oct 2020 #3

I said that since the Woodward tapes came out. Claustrum Oct 2020 #4

You are correct n/t Yonnie3 Oct 2020 #5

He's so stupid; that is exactly what he ended up with in March. It wiped out most gains from 3 years Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2020 #7

Well, he doesnt know anything about the stock market, at all. Eliot Rosewater Oct 2020 #8

yes, exACTLY. Grasswire2 Oct 2020 #9

What happened to the story where big donors got secret COVID briefing before mkt crash? Nt Fiendish Thingy Oct 2020 #10

Also a travel panic. Disaffected Oct 2020 #11

Yep. Very practically the first thing he did was to pump money into the markets soothsayer Oct 2020 #12