Ben Shapiro responded Thursday to what he called the “ugly” reaction of some prominent experts to Herman Cain’s death by COVID-19.
“He was a 74-year-old survivor of stage 4 colon cancer,” said the presenter of the “Ben Shapiro Show,” and people are immersed in Cain on Twitter because he obviously attended the President Trump rally in Tulsa in less two weeks. before being diagnosed with COVID 19. “
Cain did not wear a mask at the indoor event on June 20. Eleven days later, Cain was hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus.
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“This is the reason for many on the left … because obviously, if someone whose politics you don’t like dies from COVID, then you can dive into them … that’s basically the way our garbage world works,” he added. Shapiro. .
Although the tributes to Cain came when the news of his death began to spread early Thursday morning, others took advantage of the moment to attack Trump and his followers. Stand Up Republic chief executive Evan McMullin used the news to refer to Trump protesters as a “scientific denial of the Trump cult.”
Herman Cain was hospitalized for coronavirus two weeks after he attended the Trump rally in Tulsa without a face mask. He is the first high-level victim of the scientific denial of the Trump cult. The question is whether even that can awaken others to the dangers of Trump and the virus, “wrote McMullin.
CNN collaborator Ana Navarro-Cárdenas said: “Covid doesn’t care about partisanship.”
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Shapiro called the response “ugly things” and “very, very bad news” and argued that “there is no evidence” that Cain was first infected with the virus at the Tulsa concentration.
“The kind of immersion in people after they die from COVID is quite unpleasant,” Shapiro told listeners.
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“Here is the reality,” he continued. “There are many people dying from this who have been wearing masks and have been careful and there are many people in the media who have been quite, say, cautious about activities that people should and should not be involved in, up to and including demonstrations massive, provided they are for public purposes that many of our elite like.
“So,” Shapiro concluded, “spare me a few crocodile tears on behalf of people who really aren’t happy with Herman Cain’s policy.”
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
