Trump tested positive for Covid few days before Biden debate, chief of staff says in new book

[PunkinPi]

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 three days before his first debate against Joe Biden, the former president's fourth and last chief of staff has revealed in a new book.

Mark Meadows also writes that though he knew each candidate was required "to test negative for the virus within seventy two hours of the start time ... Nothing was going to stop [Trump] from going out there."

Trump, Meadows says in the book, returned a negative result from a different test shortly after the positive.

Nonetheless, the stunning revelation of an unreported positive test follows a year of speculation about whether Trump, then 74 years old, had the potentially deadly virus when he faced Biden, 77, in Cleveland on 29 September - and what danger that might have presented.

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The host, Chris Wallace of Fox News, later said Trump was not tested before the debate because he arrived late. Organisers, Wallace said, relied on the honor system.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/01/trump-tested-positive-covid-before-biden-debate-chief-staff-mark-meadows-book

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I don't want to promote Meadows' book, but this is absolutely infuriating. And yes, I added a 5th paragraph, just because I think everyone should be reminded about the fact TFG didn't get tested because he was "late to the debate".

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. His whole family was "late" to the debate

My guess is he wasn't the only one with a positive test.

[Claustrum]

2. Many people suspected as much back then

My belief is that he wouldn't have gone public if he wasn't serious enough to need hospitalization. There was no way he wanted to say COVID is real and he is weak enough to get it.

Like his stance with COVID for the nation, he would have pretended it was nothing if he could.

[oldsoftie]

25. And actually, THAT was his chance to maybe win the election.

This election was VERY close. Much closer than I thought it would be. Imagine if trump had come out of that hospital and told everyone "this shits for real. You do NOT want it. Take ALL the precautions the doctors have told us to take". Something as simple as that may very well have gotten him the 75k votes he needed to win.
But of course, he's too damn stubborn and stupid to realize that

[mahannah]

3. "...relied on the honor system" ?

[Paladin]

9. Fucking unbelievable, isn't it? (nt)

[halfulglas]

12. The trouble with the "honors system" is that it only works

If honorable people are involved. We know that the Trump and Trumpists have no honor - at all.

[FloridaBlues]

4. What an ass trying to get everyone sick.

[George II]

5. What did McCarthy say about 100 times during his 8 hour speech? "Rules for thee, not for me!"

[Eugene]

6. Confirming the openly expressed suspicions of several DUers.

Honor is an absolutely foreign concept in the Trump Crime Family.

If Meadows can shed more light on the Walter Reed limo ride, he would be doing something more meaningful.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Biden has to do this for the country. He has to sue Trump because it's time for

people who know they are Covid positive and break rules and expose other people to the virus, to face consequences.

[UpInArms]

8. I thought he looked ill

And sweaty in an unnatural way …

I believed I could not despise him more. I was wrong.

[Rebl2]

10. Why would

anybody rely on the honor system for truth when it concerns tfg. We know the majority of what he says is a lie.

[Harker]

11. I just need to find... a negative Covid test...

because you know I don't have it, right?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

13. Two words that don't go together are "Trump" and "honor".

[NCjack]

14. TFG must have had a tangential plan: transmit Covid-19 to Biden with the intent to kill.

[monkeyman1]

15. the fat sob is the reason why we are in this mess !

just wanted to get re-elected ! bottom line ! to a lot of people -it's mass murder ! throw in a little dereliction of duty & attempted insurrection of U.S government for icing on the cake ! what more could a country ask for ?

[Midnight Writer]

16. Another "conspiracy theory" that turns out to be true.

[Bengus81]

17. Gosh..Trump didn't follow the debate rules pertaining to Covid. I'm..I'm shocked I tell you SHOCKED!

Fucking POS,wish to hell he would have DIED from it. He could have been yelling HOAX right up to his last breath.

[SKKY]

18. Shit like this is what convinces me that Putin, without a doubt, does in fact...

...have a pee tape. No doubt about it. Everything they say is "fake news", or "a made up story" invariably turns out to be 100% true.

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. In other words, he was deliberately late to avoid the test.

What an asshole.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. What do you expect from a narcissist?

[C Moon]

21. Trump was attempting an assassination.

I knew it as soon as I heard he had COVID after the debate. He was trying so hard to yell out germs. Another trump fail.

[pandr32]

22. TFG and his spawn are psychopaths

They let nothing or anyone get in their way--no matter what the consequences are for others or our world and country. We have seen what lengths TFG will go to and reading about this now should not be a surprise at all.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. I don't believe it

Meadows is trying to make TFG appear superhuman, as if he could "tough out" covid

[oldsoftie]

24. Is ANYONE here surprised by this? Nt

[Skittles]

26. LOL

relied on the honor system, with DONALD FUCKING TRUMP?