Post by sharksrog on Dec 1, 2021 21:23:24 GMT -5
Former President Donald Trump is denying the claim by his former chief of staff that he tested positive for COVID-19 three days before his first debate with Joe Biden.
According to excerpts from a forthcoming book by Mark Meadows published by the Guardian on Wednesday, Trump tested positive on Sept. 26, 2020, ahead of the Sept. 29 debate in Cleveland, and appeared to be symptomatic. Meadows said Trump was tested again and received a negative result that time.
But Trump participated in the debate, and other events, despite allegedly knowing he had tested positive for the coronavirus.
“Nothing was going to stop him from going out there,” Meadows writes in the memoir, “The Chief’s Chief,” which will be published next week. The New York Times, citing two former administration officials, corroborated Meadows's account.
But the former president denied the claim.
“The story of me having COVID prior to, or during, the first debate is Fake News,” Trump said in a statement. “In fact, a test revealed that I did not have COVID prior to the debate.” -- Yahoo News
If Trump is telling the truth -- I myself wondered at the time if he had tested positive -- it would be easy to prove. All he has to do is get the positive test from the presidential records. In reality, he likely HAD tested positive -- but we also know he has hired plenty of liars. When one is a liar himself, lying isn't likely to disqualify anyone from being hired by him.
Meadows has been pretty loyal to Trump. Mark even refused a January 6th subpeona, although he finally cooperated -- at least partially -- when he was charged with contempt.
Look at all the people surrounding Trump who have been charged -- all the way from contempt to fraud.
Trump's former national security advisor, Michael flynn, pled guilty, but was then pardoned by Trump. Flynn went on to publicly endorse the far-right conspiracy theory Q-Anon. although privately in a call recorded by former Trump lawyer Linn Wood he said Q-Anon was "total nonsense."
"I think it's a disinformation campaign that the CIA created, that's what I believe now," Flynn apparently told Wood. He later added, "I find it total nonsense, and I think it's a disinformation campaign created by the left."
Broadly, QAnon is an outlandish conspiracy theory that the world is run by a Satanist cabal of pedophile Democrats who plotted to oust former President Donald Trump, and that Trump would bring them to justice. -- Source Business Insider (media bias: Center).
Trump's base and those who served him in politics? They're mostly liars who believe lies. And a lot of them speak much differently in private than they do in public.
According to excerpts from a forthcoming book by Mark Meadows published by the Guardian on Wednesday, Trump tested positive on Sept. 26, 2020, ahead of the Sept. 29 debate in Cleveland, and appeared to be symptomatic. Meadows said Trump was tested again and received a negative result that time.
But Trump participated in the debate, and other events, despite allegedly knowing he had tested positive for the coronavirus.
“Nothing was going to stop him from going out there,” Meadows writes in the memoir, “The Chief’s Chief,” which will be published next week. The New York Times, citing two former administration officials, corroborated Meadows's account.
But the former president denied the claim.
“The story of me having COVID prior to, or during, the first debate is Fake News,” Trump said in a statement. “In fact, a test revealed that I did not have COVID prior to the debate.” -- Yahoo News
If Trump is telling the truth -- I myself wondered at the time if he had tested positive -- it would be easy to prove. All he has to do is get the positive test from the presidential records. In reality, he likely HAD tested positive -- but we also know he has hired plenty of liars. When one is a liar himself, lying isn't likely to disqualify anyone from being hired by him.
Meadows has been pretty loyal to Trump. Mark even refused a January 6th subpeona, although he finally cooperated -- at least partially -- when he was charged with contempt.
Look at all the people surrounding Trump who have been charged -- all the way from contempt to fraud.
Trump's former national security advisor, Michael flynn, pled guilty, but was then pardoned by Trump. Flynn went on to publicly endorse the far-right conspiracy theory Q-Anon. although privately in a call recorded by former Trump lawyer Linn Wood he said Q-Anon was "total nonsense."
"I think it's a disinformation campaign that the CIA created, that's what I believe now," Flynn apparently told Wood. He later added, "I find it total nonsense, and I think it's a disinformation campaign created by the left."
Broadly, QAnon is an outlandish conspiracy theory that the world is run by a Satanist cabal of pedophile Democrats who plotted to oust former President Donald Trump, and that Trump would bring them to justice. -- Source Business Insider (media bias: Center).
Trump's base and those who served him in politics? They're mostly liars who believe lies. And a lot of them speak much differently in private than they do in public.