Connor Ratliff

4 Oct, 16 tweets, 5 min read

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 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 14th: another tweet about how the news on COVID is "better than what the headlines suggest."

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.

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.

Updated to add: Cain's actual diagnosis was on June 29th (the tweet was on July 2nd) which shifts the timeline slightly-- testing positive closer to the Tulsa rally, and then it adds a couple of days to the period between diagnosis and his death.

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