So Roman do you remember what happened at the beginning of the month?

I do not. I mean there's a lot of things over the beginning of the month. A lot happened. Well,

Trump got COVID. He did get COVID and I thought that that would be the subject of our conversation this time.

It is quite simply that the President of the United States and the First Lady have both tested positive for the coronavirus.

Remember very early in the bill of the night in October 2nd, Trump tweets out that he and the

first lady have tested positive and then the president spends the next couple of days at Walter Reed National Medical Center where he gets an experimental treatment that's not available to the general public as well as a bunch of other things.

He gets released a few days later on October 5th and you know by now this is the end of October.

He's campaigning and he says he feels just fine, but you remember

during those few days everyone was wondering, well what if Trump got so sick that he

couldn't campaign anymore, or worse, what if he died before the election?

Or who would people vote for if his name was still on the ballot?

What if he's so sick right now and he's not telling us?

Should he temporarily hand over power to Vice President Pence?

Right.

Well, so all those things kind of more or less resolve themselves,

so we didn't have a kind of succession disaster or

ballot disaster in that way but there is a kind of connection between the

beginning of the month and the end of the month in part because people were speculating

whether or not Trump became infected at a White House gathering to announce the

nomination of Amy Koney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court.

So that gathering has now been sort of deemed a super spreader event because at least something

like 10 or 11 people who attended the event ended up getting positive,

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