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Faking Having COVID-19 Would Backfire on Trump
Is the President lying (again) to improve his diminishing election chances?
Almost as soon as President Donald Trump announced that he and his wife, FLOTUS Melania, had tested positive for COVID-19, conspiracy theorists and skeptics started rubbing their hands together. Was the timing too perfect for it to be true? Could he possibly be faking contracting a virus that has killed more than 200,000 Americans to pull in the sympathy vote?
It wouldn’t be the first time he’s done something unthinkable for political gain, or lied spectacularly to salvage his reputation as a winner.
The only way to convince people that you’re not a loser is to convince them that you’re a victim, one of my friends wrote on her Facebook wall. I had to “like” it because it has a ring of truth, even if we’re not talking about Trump. Let’s not forget the infamous 1960 Oscars where Elizabeth Taylor won Best Actress for a middling performance in an awful film (Butterfield 8) over the infinitely more deserving Shirley MacLaine for The…
