*Moe of this please*

Over the course of 24 hours, the central pillar of Donald Trump’s campaign strategy came crashing down. At almost any cost, Trump had diligently worked to suspend reality, put the coronavirus in the rearview mirror, and train the country’s attention on Joe Biden’s supposedly weak constitution and frailty. But what Trump never counted on was the possibility that he himself might pay the price for his studied ignorance.

Though the timeline of what Trump knew about his own diagnosis and when he knew it is now murkier than ever, he publicly announced he was COVID-positive in the wee hours of Friday morning just before 1:00 a.m. Eastern. Roughly 15 hours later, Trump would be airlifted to Walter Reed Medical Center Friday evening as it became clear that an entire cluster of some of his closest associates had also been infected. Ten members of Trump’s inner circle and Capitol Hill allies have