A headline that the whole world remembers: “Donald Trump has Corona”. But what if the ex-US president tested positive just a week beforehand? The new book by his then chief of staff suggests this.
According to a new book, the former US President Donald Trump is said to have tested positive for the corona virus three days before his first election speech duel with his challenger Joe Biden – and thus just under a week before his officially announced corona illness. Trump was informed of the positive test result on September 26, 2020 on board the presidential plane Air Force One, writes Trump’s then Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in a book that will be published soon.
A second test turned out negative. Trump saw this as “full permission to continue as if nothing had happened,” writes Meadows accordingly. “Nothing” could keep the incumbent from the TV duel with Biden three days later in Cleveland. The September 29, 2020 debate turned into a real mud battle because Trump incessantly interrupted his Democratic challenger.
Trump rejects Meadow’s statements as “fake news”
A few days later, Trump tested positive for the corona virus again. He announced this on the night of October 2 via Twitter and was flown a short time later by helicopter to the hospital, where he was treated for several days.
The public was never informed of the first positive corona test, dated September 26, which his former chief of staff is now reporting. “I didn’t want to alert the public when there was nothing to worry about – which was the case according to the new, more accurate test,” Meadows writes in his new book, according to the Guardian.
Trump rejected the information on Wednesday: “The story that I had Covid before or during the first debate is fake news,” said the 75-year-old. “The fact is that a test showed that I had no Covid before the debate.”
Trump has repeatedly been sharply criticized for his handling of the corona pandemic. Critics accuse the ex-president of having downplayed the danger posed by the virus for a long time and hindered an effective fight against the pandemic. His suggestion from April 2020 to treat corona patients with injections of disinfectants or light irradiation has not been forgotten. In the USA, more than 780,000 people have died as a result of a corona infection – the highest number recorded worldwide.
Source From: Stern
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