A White House security official is reportedly "gravely ill" after contracting COVID-19 in September, Bloomberg reports. The publication identified the official as Crede Bailey, who heads the White House's security office. He has reportedly been receiving hospital care since September. The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment. According to Bloomberg, which cited four sources familiar with official's condition, Bailey grew sick before the Rose Garden event held on Sept. 26, in which President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Since that event, more than 10 attendees - including the president, first lady Melania Trump and adviser Kellyanne Conway - have tested positive for the disease. However, the White House is not contact tracing attendees of the event, according to a report from The New York Times, which cited an unnamed White House official for its coverage earlier this week. The Trump administration has been coming under increased scrutiny in recent days for its protocols to counter the spread of the coronavirus as the number cases of White House staff contracting the illness continue to climb.
“don’t let it dominate your life” Trump says...Covid might end up taking yet another life 210k dead due to incompetence
Brutal. Doesn't care about others. Can't lead. Can't plan. Can't face the truth. Vote like your life depends on it.
It's a sad and pathetic commentary on this administration's lack of leadership that this tweet from June is STILL APPLICABLE today (October 8th). Really, the only thing that has changed is that Trump got infected and tested positive for Covid, helped turn the White House into a hot zone for the disease to spread, continued to make appearances after he knew that he was, at a minimum, exposed to the disease (where the CDC recommends a self-quarantine, to help reduce the spread of this deadly disease) and he put additional lives in danger while he briefly left the hospital to do a one-man, clown show parade.
This was just a disaster waiting to happen. It just happens to marry up with a one in a lifetime event. Bad luck is when you have such event tied together with another extremely rare occurrence. Covid-19 might be a one in a lifetime event, but it was still one that we knew was coming and was predictable. Not a complete surprise. A President with such needy emotions that staff have to create an alternative fake reality around him is a one in forever event, the much bigger black swan event. Govern from fake reality. What could go wrong? 210k+ dead. Infected WH. https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share What Donald Trump Doesn’t Want to Hear White House aides cater to the president’s emotional needs, at the expense of the country’s interests and his own health. Most people admitted to the hospital are grateful if the staff makes them healthy. In President Donald Trump’s case, his doctors and top aides wanted to make him happy. Trump left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center this week even though he’s still sick, vulnerable to a relapse, and spreading the virus with each maskless exhalation. He resents perceptions that he’s frail and weak, and so his team fed the illusion that he’s vital and strong. Advisers arranged a triumphant car trip around the hospital so that he could wave to fans, exposing Secret Service agents to needless risk. “What he really doesn’t like is being portrayed as ill, weak, or sick,” a senior administration official told me. “He decided to show everyone he was okay.” By staging photo ops and a video of his premature return to the White House, Trump’s staff again seemed to cater first to the president’s emotional needs, rather than the country’s interests or even his own health. Trump craves adulation, and to succeed in his administration, aides have to make sure he gets it. This practice began on day one with a lie about Trump’s inauguration-crowd size and has become so ingrained in West Wing operations that aides have routinely sent him reports filled with ego-stroking tweets, news stories, and transcripts of cable-news commentary. As the pandemic took hold, Trump denied its severity, and a cadre of advisers indulged the delusion. “Because he was never properly loved, he requires attention and submission,” Mary Trump, the president’s niece and a fierce critic of his, told me. “He requires not ever being contradicted.” Few would dare. Inside the White House, aides created a kind of alternative reality in which the threat is always receding, the boss always prevailing. In meetings with the president, “no one likes to tell him that some areas are catching fire” because of the virus, another senior administration official told me. “They only say, ‘Oh, we’re turning the corner.’ That goes on there all the time. There’s always a reluctance to talk about bad news. That permeates all the discussions.” .. Over and over, the White House downplayed the danger in order to placate Trump. One episode that stands out for me was a news conference this summer in the Rose Garden. At first the chairs were spaced apart, in keeping with social-distancing guidelines. Then White House staff came and scrunched them together, creating an agreeable aesthetic that suggested the virus is in retreat. “Even you, I notice you’re starting to get much closer together,” Trump said, as if it were the journalists’ idea to arrange the seats so that they’re at increased risk of getting sick. “Looks much better, I must say.” (So much for appearances: Today, the White House is the world’s most famous hot spot. Trump is infected, as is the first lady, and some senior aides and the reporters who cover them.) Behind closed doors, aides have been complicit in much the same sort of denialism. Troye recalls a coronavirus task force meeting in which Trump ignored the agenda and spent nearly an hour complaining about Fox News. The conversation veered back to the virus, but Trump interjected later and demanded that one of his aides call the network to complain. “Who’s going to call?” he said, Troye recalled. “We’ll take care of it, sir,” an aide replied. “He surrounds himself with people who he knows will let him have his way,” Troye said. “That’s the environment he created.”
trumpism is setting this country back DECADES. It promotes ignorance. Denounces science. Assaults truth. Education, intelligence, innovation are all at stake. trumpism is actively promoting and celebrating ignorance and a large segment of this country is falling for this culture of stupidity. The rest of the world is advancing education and knowledge and trumpism is causing us to fall behind. No single person has done more to hurt this country in my lifetime. One needs to look no further than this board for ample proof of this promotion of stupidity, ignorance and willful disregard for science and information.
This made me cry, but Trump will never shed a tear for the thousands in ICUs right now fighting for their lives all alone. Covid spreading Trump doesn't think about these people. All he cares about is another big old Maskless Covid spreading Narcissist Festival for his Cult down in Florida Monday. He can give Ron DeSantis a big wet sloppy kiss when he gets there.
Voters appear to be no longer buying what Donald "Only I can **** things up this badly" Trump is selling.
Trump may be infectious for 20 days versus the 10-14 days normally suggested. Let's do the math. Trump reported he was tested and found CV+ on Thursday October 1. Thus, Trump may be infectious up to Wednesday October 21, which is right up against the third-now-second Presidential debate. Biden should demand that Trump be independently CV tested before the last debate.
