Former chief of staff Mark Meadows has a new book coming out where he says Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before his first debate with Joe Biden:
Report: New Mark Meadows book says Trump tested positive for Covid three days before first debate with Biden. Quickly got a second test, which was negative. From @guardian: https://t.co/VtmOnTZsdX
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 1, 2021
Even though he tested negative on the second test, Meadows instructed staff to treat the president as if he was infected. From The Guardian:
After “a brief but tense wait”, Meadows called back with news of the negative test. He could “almost hear the collective ‘Thank God’ that echoed through the cabin”, he writes.
Meadows says Trump took that call as “full permission to press on as if nothing had happened”. His chief of staff, however, “instructed everyone in his immediate circle to treat him as if he was positive” throughout the Pennsylvania trip.
Meadows also wrote, “Nothing was going to stop [Trump] from going out there” and debate Biden:
“Nothing was going to stop [Trump] from going out there” Meadows says in the book. Trump turned in a negative result from a different test to participate in the debate with Biden after he had tested positive for Covid days before the debate | The Guardian https://t.co/nD8E3Hd3SF
— Jim Bourg (@jimbourg) December 1, 2021
Days later, Trump tested positive again and was hospitalized for treatment:
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1466019418002149383
And now we wait for a response from the former president:
Huge deal. Per Mark Meadows, Trump had tested positive three days BEFORE that first debate. His decision to attend endangered the life of Biden and everyone else there.
The disease he had treated so recklessly nearly killed him a week later. https://t.co/mhHhiti6RE
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) December 1, 2021
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