There’s Still So Much That’s Been Kept Secret About Trump’s COVID Diagnosis

October 7, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 05: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures on the Truman Balcony after returning to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trum... WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 05: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures on the Truman Balcony after returning to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spent three days hospitalized for coronavirus. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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October 7, 2020

White House officials said on Tuesday that in spite of the appearance of rigorous daily coronavirus testing, President Donald Trump had not been tested everyday for COVID-19 before he announced he had fallen ill with the virus last week.

A senior administration official would only confirm to The New York Times on Tuesday that Trump was tested “regularly,” which provides new insight into a still fairly opaque understanding of how the President contracted the virus. Trump’s diagnosis has rattled the White House, which has since become something of a coronavirus hotspot.

Follow along with the TPM staff as we cover this ongoing story:

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White House officials said on Tuesday that in spite of the appearance of rigorous daily coronavirus testing, President Donald Trump had not been tested everyday for COVID-19 before he announced he had fallen ill with the virus last week.

A senior administration official would only confirm to The New York Times on Tuesday that Trump was tested “regularly,” which provides new insight into a still fairly opaque understanding of how the President contracted the virus. Trump’s diagnosis has rattled the White House, which has since become something of a coronavirus hotspot.

Follow along with the TPM staff as we cover this ongoing story:

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  1. It is a shame that Trump is surrounded by his ostensibly all-powerful reality distortion field. It would be beneficial, indeed exemplary, to disclose as much as possible about the effects of covid on his body and mind, and the actual efficacy of his various treatments. Instead we are treated to 13th century theater.

  2. What Trump “learned” about COVID-19 is that his only way forward is to move Walter Reed back to the White House, stop giving briefings from actual doctors, and “play it down” by lying about when he last tested negative, what treatments he’s receiving, what drugs he’s on, and how he’s actually doing.

    Oh, and he also “learned” that he should never mention his wife or young son.

  3. Stooges, paid slaves, minions, enablers, cult-people, facsists, sycophants…and more.

    For the last four years, we should have been paying more attention to them.

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