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Given where we are now-- Day 3 of @realDonaldTrump in the hospital, infected with COVID-19-- it's worth a look back at the timeline of what happened with Herman Cain.
June 20th: attends Trump rally in Tulsa. No mask.
June 20th: attends Trump rally in Tulsa. No mask.
June 25th: no more lockdowns
June 26th: Biden wants a mask mandate. Cain disagrees.
June 29th: Cain celebrates Mike Pence refusing to say that "Black Lives Matter."
June 29th: The news on COVID is "better than what you're being told."
July 2nd: Cain tests positive for COVID-19.
July 5th: making progress.
July 7th: wants to get back in action soon
July 10th: he is improving
July 7th: wants to get back in action soon
July 10th: he is improving
July 14th: another tweet about how the news on COVID is "better than what the headlines suggest."
They add the word "maybe" this time.
They add the word "maybe" this time.
July 15th: the doctors like the progress he's making
July 16th: rhetorical question about why people don't just choose to wear a mask, "regardless of mandates."
July 17th: "it might still be possible to pull this out of the fire."
July 27th: "He really is getting better, which means it is working."
July 30th: Herman Cain dies of COVID. He will not be mentioned during the RNC a month later.
July 30th: Cain's official twitter retweets this sloppy condolence tweet from @realDonaldTrump, who ends it with the phrase "I just got off..."
66 days later, Trump is in the hospital, infected with COVID-19.
66 days later, Trump is in the hospital, infected with COVID-19.
FYI: I didn't like Herman Cain's politics. I think not wearing a mask to Trump's Tulsa rally was crazy irresponsible. But I wish we lived in an America where he was still alive because more people started taking this disease seriously earlier. He should still be ALIVE.
