Trump campaign attacks Joe Biden for lack of 'firsthand experience' being infected with COVID-19

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October 5, 2020
By David Edwards



Trump campaign aide Erin Perrine on Monday suggested that President Donald Trump is a better leader than Democratic candidate Joe Biden because he has the “firsthand experience” of being infected with COVID-19.

While speaking to Fox News host Sandra Smith, Perrine pointed to Trump’s joyride around Walter Reed Medical Center to wave at supporters as evidence of him continuing with a presidential schedule, which she said was “more rigorous” than Joe Biden’s daily activities.

Smith wondered if the global pandemic will take the forefront in Trump’s campaign now that the president has personally been infected with the disease.

“Firsthand experience is always going to change how someone relates to something that’s been happening,” Perrine opined. “The president has coronavirus right now, he is battling it head on, as toughly, as only President Trump can. And of course that’s going to change the way that he speaks of it because it will be a firsthand experience.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trump-campaign-s-joe-biden-for-lack-of-firsthand-experience-being-infected-with-19/

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jfc, they're delusional.

[marmar]

1. This isn't from the Onion......

[Roland99]

18. I was about to reply with a "lol" think it was honestly from The Onion!

[TheRealNorth]

27. Same here

its getting harder and harder to distinguish the satire from the shit Republicans put out there.

[TheBlackAdder]

22. If I'm working under a car, I use multiple jacks. I don't need first hand car-crushing experience.

[lagomorph777]

37. Hilariously desperate attempt to turn their lemon into lemonade.

But he's just a spoiled lemon.

[lagomorph777]

44. Did the Fux bimbo bust out laughing, or was she able to keep a straight face?

[hauckeye]

2. Gawd I thought this was from The Onion

[Universal Karma]

3. OMFG

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Huh??? Define STUPID !!!!

Can Trump cultists be any more ignorant?

Talk about being 2 beers shy of a 6 pack, as we say here in Minnesota.

[spanone]

5. Bwahahahahahaaaa CrazyTown

[Claustrum]

6. You knew that was coming

Trump said as much in his Tweet. You knew that is a talking point Trump wants the whole right wing to use.

[The Magistrate]

7. I Was Expecting A Borowitz Rick-Roll, Ma'am

Words fail me.

[Hugin]

14. What a graphic!

LOL!

(P.S. Thanks for the tip on Saki. I've got the collected works coming as a B-day gift to myself.)

[The Magistrate]

25. Much Appreciated, Sir

You will enjoy it.

Look out for this one, it is a favorite of mine....

https://americanliterature.com/author/hh-munro-saki/short-story/clovis-on-parental-responsibilities

[Hugin]

30. Some Poe has intervened, but, I'll get to it.

[33taw]

8. Is this the same as being in the military or having family in the military gives a better

perspective of military service?

[Casual User]

9. In other words, it's a ploy

from a lying sack of shit grifter and his accomplices.

They really don't think very highly of anyone except themselves.

Fake illness from a fake president.

THIS is what they came up with to counteract the debate debacle.

The debate "performance" pretty much clinched it for Biden, and repubes know it, they know Trump is batshit bonkers.

[First Speaker]

26. Excellent post--and welcome to DU!

[secondwind]

31. Welcome to DU!!

[lagomorph777]

38. Biden's lead doubled after the debate.

Trump put in a pretty impressive performance - in a negative sense.

[Hugin]

10. And, there she spins...

Somebody get the air freshener. It's a stinker!

[SoonerPride]

11. Biden dosn't have first hand experience being a traitor, so he doesn't know how to suck Putin off

But I guess we can leave that to Donny Dumbfuck

[still_one]

12. Another reason why trump is not qualified to be president. Anyone with half a brain realized that

with over 200000 people dead, and over 7 million infected with this, many with life long side-effects from it, this was something you want to TRY AN AVOID GETTING!!!

Perhaps Erin Perrine would like to visit trump up close and personal so she to can get FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE

I suggest that she might want to touch a hot stove while she is at it, and tell us about that first hand experience also

[dubyadiprecession]

13. Now that's some bizarre spin!

It’s a great thing that independents and Republicans I know, also see this as totally unacceptable behavior.

[Claustrum]

23. Great to know that there are reasonable republicans that see it as totally unacceptable behavior

I kid you not, I just overheard my dad an hour ago talking about how it's their choice to not wear a mask and it's their choice to die and it's unreasonable for us to comment or criticize them. It took all my might to keep quiet and not start a debate/fight because none of these fights went anywhere since 2016. We never had to fight about these things before Trump but it is what it is now.......

[lagomorph777]

40. I hope you're not living with your COVIDAD.

He's a grave danger to you if you are.

[Claustrum]

43. Unfortunately, I am

I resigned to the fact that I will catch it some time. I hope my profile (little to no high risk) would give me a higher chance of survival when I eventually get it. If anything, I might have gotten it already.

[lagomorph777]

45. I assume you have no way to leave, or you would have done so already.

I'm very sorry for you.

[Claustrum]

46. I escaped many times in the last decade or two.

Unfortunately, they have little to no English skill (we are first generation immigrants) so I keep having to come back to help them. I have a home that I rent out in another state but they need my help.

This is strictly a Trump problem. Republicans aren't as crazy (or at least they don't say the silent part out) before Trump so our opinions weren't as far apart as now. And politics used to not show up much at all. But Trump made them more vocal than ever and it has become more and more difficult to have a reasonable and productive conversation.

[lagomorph777]

48. Tell him if he refuses to wear a mask you are not going to risk your life for him.

He doesn't deserve your help if he's trying to kill you.

[Claustrum]

50. Lucky thing, my mom keeps him in check so he does wear a mask when he is in a store

[beachbumbob]

15. this makes a great ad for Biden as we prefer out leaders to be SMARTER than a virus

[consider_this]

16. Arrgh@ *Rump IS the virus!

his idiocy is infectious to 'morans', and that is how we are in this situation - a sea of ignorant *rump idolators, making the world unsafe for all.

This might be a chicken and egg thing - which came first, the morans, or their god (pumped up by greed for $ instead of truth) - but either way - this is just endlessly infuriating!!

[DBoon]

17. I was sure this was going to be Borowitz

[beachbumbob]

19. be like saying how fit General Custer would be to lead anything

had custer survive


its SNL level comedy and they will have field day

[greenjar_01]

20. I honestly thought this would be The Onion or Borowitz when I clicked the link

These people are demented.

[chriscan64]

21. If I was a recently unfrozen caveman

and all I knew about the candidates is that one of them willingly exposed themselves to a disease, the other one would get my vote.

Any spin on how Trump got all that valuable experience?

[Alacritous Crier]

24. The stupidity and disregard for karma...

in these morons is delicious. Trump's 1st hand experience could very well end up with him underground.

[frazzled]

28. Response: He has first-hand experience with knowing how to avoid contracting COVID

Therefore, he wins.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

36. +1

[malaise]

29. They are all stark raving mad

That is all

[OAITW r.2.0]

32. George Orwell had nothing on this WH PR team. nt

[Disaffected]

52. Neither did Lewis Carroll.

[TwilightZone]

55. Or Baghdad Bob

[kacekwl]

33. Joe has 1st hand knowledge on being

a man and human. Trump will never know how that feels.

[Buckeyeblue]

34. I don't even know how to respond to such lunacy

[Proud Liberal Dem]

35. Oh brother

REALLY?!

I certainly hope he didn't decide to let himself get infected (and others) just to have some kind of perverse bragging rights!

[Rice4VP]

39. That's the difference between Biden and Trump

Biden didn’t need to experience it first hand to care and understand what it does to people. Trump is self serving and only cares about himself

[smirkymonkey]

41. That has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard.

For so many reasons.

[Yavin4]

42. North Korea called.

"Hey, stop stealing our act. We were first."

[Ponietz]

47. It boils down to "Critical Thinking is for Cucks"

when greed and hatred are your gods.

[58Sunliner]

49. I had this on my bingo card.

[Takket]

51. NOT the Onion!!!!?!!????

This is real???

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

53. I expect they're so stupid that they'd attack Joe for not having first hand experience

of being dead, if Trumpler kicks the bucket before the election.

[RockCreek]

54. Bat S**t Crazy n/t

[nuxvomica]

56. "toughly"?

I think she meant "strongly" or "rigorously" because "toughly" means "strictly" but to these people words like that are interchangeable. If this was one of those for-an-audience-of-one deals, she should've used "handsomely":

“The president has coronavirus right now, he is battling it head on, as handsomely as only President Trump can."