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.
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.
I don’t think it’s so much “believed” as “hoped.”
Specifically, people hoped that the staggeringly dangerous and destructive deranged megalomaniac currently destroying the US had died, since at this point, in a world in which virtually none of the politicians, government officials or journalists who are actually in a position to do anything to at least slow the US’s Trump-led sprint to neo-feudalism can be bothered to lift a finger, him dying is about the only hope we billions of ordinary prople have.
But of course, the NYT is at the forefront of the journalists who can’t be bothered to actually demonstrate any principles or integrity, so all we get from them is this bit of sycophantic pabulum.
don’t forget “wanted to see if he could be goaded into doing something to harm himself and his followers just to prove something stupid”