In the world of presidential health, distrust and speculation run so rampant that even Mr. Trump’s online assurance that he was fine was immediately explained away as part of a cover-up.

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    “There’s always been this wishful-thinking industry around Trump’s health and Trump’s legal woes,” said Mike Rothschild, a journalist and author who studies conspiracy movements. “There’s been this far-left influencer sphere that is constantly pumping up the idea that Trump is about to go to prison or the walls are closing in.”

    Actually pretty sure the fucking assholes who kept chanting “tRuSt tHe pRoCeSs” were the centrist pro-business democrats and the people who thought Merrick Garland wasn’t absolutely fucking this all up.

    Further, him deserving to go to prison is why people were fucking hopeful that he would.

    Anyway, at least the idea that can “trust the process” is finally dead and fucking buried where it should have been thirty god damned years ago.

    But seriously, how long is the NYT gonna sanewash this shit and act like Trump isn’t an abusive criminal who has successfully abused the system to put himself above the law? Now literally comparing the need to put a criminal like him behind bars and bar him from running for President to fringe conspiracy theories. What a crock of shit.

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    I mean he sounded like shit when I heard him, and he was almost definitely speaking from a reclined position.

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    What even is this article? It’s a rambling history of Trump’s medical woes as some sort of chastisement to “the internet” for hoping he had died? It’s clearly sort of the Times again sucking up to Trump, but in a weird way that doesn’t make sense?

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      He’s just trying to distract us by still being alive! Lol

      Honestly that’s the worst thing he has done as a distraction

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    I don’t think most people were convinced, but it was nice to entertain the thought.

    If he actually had died, the resulting power vacuum would have been felt around the world within minutes.

    That or he did die and they had to decant one of his spare clones out of a vat.

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      Six people posted tongue in cheek stuff mocking what the conservatives did when Biden wasn’t constantly in the news and suddenly news articles are saying the whole Internet was convinced.

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    The Internet was convinced otherwise.

    No we weren’t. I’ve learned that there is no such thing as good news anymore.