Meadows machinations: previous guy tested positive for COVID prior to his debate with Biden in 2020. The latest diversion from the Insurrection might be that Mark Meadows’s consent to a Select Committee appearance is like some other PR tactics, a book promotion. Did previous guy hope he would infect his opponent.
Mark Meadows’ memoir, The Chief’s Chief, will be published next week by All Seasons Press, a conservative outlet. The Guardian obtained a copy on Tuesday – the day Meadows reversed course and said he would cooperate with the House committee investigating the deadly Capitol attack of 6 January.
In a statement on Wednesday, Trump called Meadows’ claims “Fake News”.
Meadows says Trump’s positive result on 26 September was a shock to a White House which had just staged a triumphant Rose Garden ceremony for the supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett – an occasion now widely considered to have been a Covid super-spreader event.
Despite the president looking “a little tired” and suspecting a “slight cold”, Meadows says he was “content” that Trump travelled that evening to a rally in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
But as Marine One lifted off, Meadows writes, the White House doctor called.
“Stop the president from leaving,” Meadows says Sean Conley told him. “He just tested positive for Covid.”
It wasn’t possible to stop Trump but when he called from Air Force One, his chief of staff gave him the news.
“Mr President,” Meadows said, “I’ve got some bad news. You’ve tested positive for Covid-19.”
Trump’s reply, the devout Christian writes, “rhyme[d] with ‘Oh spit, you’ve gotta be trucking lidding me’”.
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President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus days before he shared the debate stage with then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in September 2020, a according to his former chief of staff and two others familiar with the former president’s test.
Trump’s positive test for the virus was on Sept. 26, 2020, according to an account by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in a new book obtained by The Guardian newspaper. The Meadows account of the positive result was confirmed Wednesday by two people who requested anonymity to discuss their knowledge of the former president’s health.
The timing means Trump would have had reason to believe he was infected with coronavirus three days before the Sept. 29 presidential debate and six days before he was hospitalized for covid-19 at Walter Reed National Medical Center.
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