I am saying that the "details" that are different are the ones that make it tremendously unlikely it's a hoax, because they would be directly harmful to the message the hoax would be trying to convey There'd be no reason to be get in the damn helicopter and go to the hospital
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Except if you wanted to create more
#TrumpTheater in order to make the narrative that the virus isn't serious, that the drugs absolutely work, that everything is fine, and that the MSM is 100% lying.... from that perspective, it makes PERFECT sense to hoax.3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
How does sending him off in a helicopter support that narrative? All outward signs indicate that Trump is taking the disease quite seriously, or at least way more seriously than he would if he were trying to sell the disease being weak.
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If he were to go to a hospital, in the hoax version, he would do so in a flippant way that indicates that he wasn't really impacted by the disease. "My handlers are scared but I'm not. I'm putting on a show for them." That kinda energy.
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Yes if it were somehow necessary to go to the hospital to "sell the hoax" but the point of the hoax were the virus is very mild and Trump is feeling just fine, he would have made a point of walking himself into the hospital and waving to the cameras as he did so
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It's so bizarre because Trump is kinda a terrible con artist. His big move is telling a ridiculously brazen lie and hoping no one calls him on it, and his power means that few do call him on it. It's usually incredibly obvious when he lies.
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The vast majority of his lies have been incredibly obvious and easy to prove lies, yes
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Oh jeez, I just remembered that core to this situation is that Trump caught the disease in likely association with a super spreader event that infected dozens of Republicans. Which, that is a lot of moving pieces for a hoax.
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Like, are the three senators who are needed for an upcoming supreme court vote in on it? Or is the idea that everyone else was actually infected but his infection in particular was a lie? This just doesn't make sense.
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If Trump disappeared from view and everyone said he's fine, I wouldn't jump to the conclusion he was dead. But I'd strongly question why they were doing that. Raising the question doesn't imply the conclusion.
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He didn't disappear from view, he got in a helicopter and went to the hospital, there were witnesses
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I actually didn't say he did... I was giving an "if". The questioning is where I was trying to point. Not making up a factless story, I promise. Ugh... I hate that I fell for the Kool-Aid on this one. Big apologies, Arthur.
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