I’m going to go on the record as saying I’m not sure I believe this - frankly, I think there is a good chance that this was just more of the contempt of court bullshit that has pervaded the court proceedings surrounding the Capitol riots.
I can hear it now “I’m just not going to show up, tell that %&$# radical socialist n-word judge that I have Covid har har har. If they want me to call in, tell them I’m on a ventilator har har har.”
Seriously, I don’t know why anyone believes a word that comes out of any of these people. Especially this fraudster.
ETA- I was just searching for a link on this guy’s sketchy background and it looks like I might be right.
Now, they are saying that that he thought he had Covid …. Yeah, right …but “only appears to be suffering from dehydration and exhaustion in relation to his tireless work on behalf of his clients”. No explanation for the ventilator part of the story. The tell for the lie was the wording of his associate’s statement to the judge…, the insertion of “we believe” in the statement about him being placed on a ventilator.
Updated story
Seriously, I was on to this bullshit as soon as I read the story - no outside confirmation, no hospital name……just the same gratuitous disrespect for the legal system that is the hallmark of his fraudulent career.