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It is likely to be considered the biggest “October surprise” in the history of the US presidential election. However, anyone who was paying attention could have seen it coming.
Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus after claiming it will “go away,” telling journalist Bob Woodward that he was deliberately downplaying it, did not develop a national testing strategy, refused to wear a mask for months, raised the idea of injecting to bleach patients, insisting on one of his many crowded campaign rallies that “affects virtually no one” and, in Tuesday’s debate, taunting rival Joe Biden: “He could be speaking from 200 feet away and appears with the largest mask I have ever seen. “
It suggests a sense of invincibility even when more than 200,000 Americans died. But now the chickens have come home to rest, just as they did to the equally arrogant British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and the Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro. Covid-19, described as the “invisible enemy” by Trump, has penetrated the Oval Office.
Thirty-two days before an election often described as the most important in living memory, this changes everything.
