Trumpworld Insists POTUS Is Clear From COVID As Campaign Ramps Back Up

October 9, 2020
President Donald Trump gives two thumbs-up upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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October 9, 2020

Just a week after President Trump was hospitalized for coronavirus, the Trump campaign is insisting that the President has made an unprecedented, lightning-speed recovery at the ripe age of 74.

White House physician Dr. Sean Conley, after remaining largely evasive about critical aspects of the President’s health, sought to clear the President to return to public life: the President is ready for “public engagements” as soon as Saturday.

The President appeared to run with his doctor’s note, announcing late Thursday that he planned to hold a rally in person on Saturday while brushing away a question about whether he has now tested negative for coronavirus.

The Trump reelection campaign has similarly declared that there is “no medical reason” for a virtual presidential debate next week in a concerted messaging effort that President Trump’s COVID-19 battle is all but won.

Follow along with TPM as we cover the fallout of Trump’s debate disaster throughout the day:

 

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Just a week after President Trump was hospitalized for coronavirus, the Trump campaign is insisting that the President has made an unprecedented, lightning-speed recovery at the ripe age of 74.

White House physician Dr. Sean Conley, after remaining largely evasive about critical aspects of the President’s health, sought to clear the President to return to public life: the President is ready for “public engagements” as soon as Saturday.

The President appeared to run with his doctor’s note, announcing late Thursday that he planned to hold a rally in person on Saturday while brushing away a question about whether he has now tested negative for coronavirus.

The Trump reelection campaign has similarly declared that there is “no medical reason” for a virtual presidential debate next week in a concerted messaging effort that President Trump’s COVID-19 battle is all but won.

Follow along with TPM as we cover the fallout of Trump’s debate disaster throughout the day:

 

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  1. Trumpworld Insists POTUS Is Clear From COVID

    Won’t Say If He’s Tested Negative

     

    This is the part of the exercise where students are asked to draw their own conclusions.

  2. Paging Karma, please report to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

    It’s showtime!

  3. If he were really negative, it would be on a neon sign in front of the WH.

    All of this scam flows from that.

    The scam has even hooked a few (“He ain’t sick at all”) TPMers.

  4. Avatar for yskov yskov says:

    I suspect he’s been positive much longer than claimed, but if not, the antibody cocktail may very well have done the trick.

    But that’s irrelevant. The disease cluster is running rampant through his circle, and those are the ones to worry about.

  5. Where are the status reports on the vile trumpkins who’ve contracted the Trump-45 Virus? Conway, Miller, McEnany, Stepien, et al. Where are they being treated? What’s their prognosis?

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