Trump's COVID Diagnosis: 9 Questions We Have

Trump announced he'd tested positive for the virus as Thursday became Friday, and the pandemic reached his inner circle. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       The President Tested Positive for COVID-19. I Have 9 Questions.   Around midnight, as Thursday became Friday, and we learned that the pandemic had reached into the administration*'s innermost inner circle, and then into The Residence Itself, these were the things about which I began to wonder. The announcement that the president* and his wife are now two of the over 7 million Americans with the virus, and that top White House aide Hope Hicks not only tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, but also was symptomatic when all hands flew to Duluth on Wednesday for one of the president*'s airport wankfests, creates a possibly vast Yggdrasil tree of contagion that now includes the president* and his wife and his children and his Secret Service detail, the entire White House staff, and their spouses and their children, the White House press corps and their spouses, partners, and children, several members of the Minnesota congressional delegation and their extended families, and an entire Air Force air wing based in Duluth, and on and on and on. Charles P. Pierce poses nine questions in the wake of this morning's colossal news. 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