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FORMER US PRESIDENTIAL candidate Herman Cain has died after being hospitalised with Covid-19.
The 74-year-old ran for the Republican nomination on a number of occasions, coming closest in 2012 when he briefly led the field in some polls before Mitt Romney won out to face Barack Obama.
Cain was first hospitalised with Covid-19 at the beginning of this month but he has now passed away, according to several US media outlets and a post on his own website.
“Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away,” a post on his website said this afternoon.
The post detailed that Cain had trouble breathing when he was admitted to hospital and was in a high-risk group due to having previously had cancer.
Cain was a former businessman who was an executive at several major US food corporations, such as Burger King and Godfather’s Pizza. He was a vocal opponent of Bill Clinton in the 1990s and a newspaper columnist.
His 2012 Republican campaign was noteworthy for his embrace of the Tea Party movement and a so-called ’9-9-9 Tax plan’. The plan sought to simplify the US tax system by an across-the-board 9% rate on income tax, sales tax and corporation tax.
US President Donald Trump publicly suggested last year that he may nominate Cain for a position on the board of the US Federal Reserve but Cain subsequently withdrew his candidacy.
Cain was hospitalised with Covid-19 on 1 July, having ten days previously attended a Trump rally in Tulsa. He tweeted an image from the rally in which neither he nor the others in the picture were wearing masks, as is advised by the US Center for Disease Control.
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Well then, attends a Trump rally and is dead a month later. Too late to tell him that he was warned I suppose.
@Reg: well first off R.I.P. condolences to his family and loved ones. But yeah I think we were all thinking that same thing
@Reg: He tweeted this on the 1 July about the Tulsa rally: https://i.imgur.com/kN4jJ2c.png
@David Jordan: maybe now some of the other Trumpidiots put there will finally wake up, but I won’t hold my breath.
@David Jordan: Well, guess he isn’t fed up anymore at least
@Reg: I’m sure his stage 4 cancer had no effect then.
@RMChance55: He no longer had cancer apparently.
“Cain was admitted to an Atlanta-area hospital on July 1, 2020, for treatment of COVID-19, two days after he was told he tested positive for the virus. His staff said there was no way to be certain where or in what way he contracted the disease. He had attended a Trump rally in Tulsa 11 days earlier without wearing a mask or socially distancing.”
Call Jessica Fletcher. We’ve a mystery on our hands.
Anti-masker got Darwin’d.
@Seán Ó Briain:
Some respect online for a deceased
man would be a more appropriate comment.
@Lotus: Willfully and publicly disparaging medical recommendations during a pandemic. Blood on his hands. Just like that Turning Point goon Montgomery. Good riddance to the two of them.
@Fergus:
Wow…. Awful comment
@Fergus: Nasty. What goes around, comes around.
@RMChance55: You’re absolutely right. He didnt want to wear a mask and follow medical guidelines and look where it got him.
Lets dispense with this false pearl clutching for some rando 3000k who contirbuted nothing but jeopardising lives.
@RMChance55: “what goes around, comes around” literally how infectious disease works.
@Lotus: his comments on masks probably got others killed
The comments on twitter are so depressing. According to trump supporters he died because he was a cancer survivor. Will nothing convince these people that the virus is not a hoax? It’s rampant in many states and can be fatal especially for people with underlying conditions
@Anne Marie Devlin: Chemo in the treatment of stage 4 cancer like Herman Cain had suppresses the immune system making him vulnerable to covid. He was a wonderful man and Godfather’s Pizza is delicious.
@RMChance55: if he was so vulnerable to Covid, why didn’t he social distance and wear a mask? No matter what way you spin it, his own actions killed himself. He thought the disease was nothing to be concerned about, and so he ignored all the warnings and medical advice and will now be lowered 6 feet underground as a direct result. Not a very clever man if you ask me.
@RMChance55: But he was treated for cancer in 2006, last had Chemo and surgery 14 years ago. After 5 years, if the cancer does not reoccur, a patient is considered cured.
Are the Darwin awards still a thing?
@BK: beat me too it
Trump’s not bothered, he’s just tweeted out support for some pizza place..
@ianglen: An abuse of his position of power btw. Can’t use your presidential position to endorse businesses. He’s trying to make some quick bucks before he’s out soon.
@Seán Ó Briain: He doesn’t care, sorry excuse for a human being..
@Seán Ó Briain: the indictments just keep stacking up.
@Seán Ó Briain: You can’t? He expresses his 1st Amendment right by calling out his favorites all the time. Who knew Presidents didn’t have 1st Amendment rights while President?! Shocking!
@Dave Thomas: Name one.
Darwinism in full effect.
But covid doesn’t exist!
It’s fake news created by Hillary Obama, an African Muslim.
I’m going to read the article again with the music from Curb Your Enthusiam playing in the background to make up for the fact it doesn’t mention the tweet.
Owned.
And am Sure Prince Andrew visited him at some point as opposed to Milano
Does YouTube really believe that putting ads in the middle of Beautiful songs It’s Going to make people Rush out and buy that product………
Told you not to go to trump rally
Told you not to go to trump rally
Suspect the cowboy in the top right of the picture is glad he wore his mask!!
Very soon, He’ll be doing the 2 metre social distancing crack
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