The Ny Times’ Maggie Haberman tweeted the following this morning:
Trump, in new statement, ignores Meadows’ own book. “My Chief of Staff Mark Meadows confirmed I did not have Covid before or during the debate,” Trump says. Actually, Meadows writes in his book that we’ll never know if Trump had it during the debate.
Here’s what Meadows actually says. Don’t take my word for it.
Meadows also confirms my reporting from that weekend about Trump – who I wrote was on oxygen – having precariously low oxygen levels.
It’s extremely hard to fathom on what planet Meadows thought Trump would reward him for sharing this.
Meadows also confirms my reporting from that weekend about Trump – who I wrote was on oxygen – having precariously low oxygen levels.
Here was our accurate story a few months ago on how sick Trump was, which Trump denied. Meadows book makes the denial all the flimsier
Meadows also confirms my reporting from that weekend about Trump – who I wrote was on oxygen – having precariously low oxygen levels.
When Meadows lectures on television about how the media doesn’t really know Trump and to believe Meadows’ view, it’s pretty clear that Meadows doesn’t know him well if he thought this book would be met with a smile.
Originally tweeted by Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) on December 6, 2021.
I’m sue she’s right hat Trump isn’t happy about it. But he just lie and says black is white and 40% of the country believes him. Because he “tells it like it is.”
The Washington Post has a huge story this morning looking at the seven days between Trump’s positive test and his announcement that he had COVID. It is not pretty. They estimate he exposed at least 500 people.
When he first learned he had tested positive for the coronavirus, President Donald Trump was already aboard Air Force One, en route to a massive rally in Middletown, Pa.
With him on the plane that Saturday evening were dozens of people — senior aides, Air Force One personnel, junior staffers, journalists and other members of the large entourage typical for a presidential trip — all squeezed together in the recirculating air of a jetliner.
“Stop the president,” White House physician Sean Conley told Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, according to a new book by Meadows set to publish Tuesday that was obtained by the Guardian newspaper. “He just tested positive for covid.”
But Meadows asserts in his book that it was too late to stop Trump and that a second rapid antigen test — apparently done using the same sample — came back negative. But under guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Trump should have taken a more accurate polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to confirm whether he had the coronavirus.
“Had I been there, and Dr. Conley would have told me they would have received a positive test, I would have assumed it was accurate and frankly canceled everything right away,” said John F. Kelly, one of Trump’s previous chiefs of staff, adding that he also would have rushed Trump to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. “To do anything else would be irresponsible.”
In fact, Trump was hospitalized at Walter Reed about a week later. From the day he tested positive until his hospitalization, Trump came in contact with more than 500 people, either those in proximity to him or at crowded events, not including rallygoers, according to a Washington Post analysis of the president’s interactions during that period.
That seven-day window reveals a president and chief of staff who took a reckless, and potentially dangerous, approach to handling the coronavirus, including Trump’s own positive test.
I am sure he knew he had it. But he thought it would be manageable and he didn’t want to look weak. So he just went around maskless, glad-handing and breathing on people, including Joe Biden. Because he is a monster.
If you ever believed in karma this should disabuse you of it. Trump came it just fine. Who knows how many people he gave the virus to.