Passive versus active would make a huge difference here, right? Even if it’s amoral to wish someone does not recover from an ailment, there’s no act involved or even promulgated in such a statement.

No, there is a huge difference because Trump's death would be from the same disease he criminally downplayed.

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Disgusting or not, there would have been delicious irony in Trump dying from a Democratic hoax.