What happened to Mike Pence?

| 3:02 am EDT May 16, 2020
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When the week began, major media outlets were reporting that Mike Pence had been quarantined due to having been directly exposed to coronavirus by his press secretary, even as the Trump White was pushing back against this and insisting that Pence was not quarantined.

Since that time we’ve seen Pence run one meeting while in isolation. Then he sort of just disappeared from public view. He did find time to do a remote interview this week with eternal scumbag Rush Limbaugh, so we know that at the least, Pence is able to speak on the phone. But it’s fairly clear that he’s been in quarantine the entire time, or at least some kind of modified quarantine, and the Trump regime just doesn’t want to admit it.

That doesn’t necessarily mean Mike Pence is sick. But with the CDC having issued a warning this week that the White House-favored Abbott test is returning false negatives as much as 48% of the time, there’s no reason to put any stock in the Trump regime’s claims that Pence keeps testing negative. As always, the Trump regime can’t be tested – and at this point we have no way of knowing what kind of health the Vice President of the United States is in.