The last chief of staff of the former president assures that Trump was tired at the time of the positive test, carried out on September 26, 2020.
Former United States President Donald Trump tested positive for covid-19 and then negative, three days before the debate with Democrat Joe Biden on September 29, 2020, according to an excerpt from the book by his former chief of staff, obtained by The Guardian newspaper and which the Republican magnate denies.
Mark Meadows argues in the book “The Chief’s Chief” to be published next week that “nothing was going to stop Trump” from debating his Democratic opponent in the 2020 presidential election, which Biden won in an election. highly questioned by his rival.
The last chief of staff of the former president assures that Trump presented at the time of the positive test, carried out on September 26, 2020, signs of fatigue and symptoms of a “slight cold.”
Mark Meadows claims to have warned Trump that the test came back positive when the latter was aboard Air Force One, en route to a campaign rally, according to The Guardian.
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He maintains that after the first test, carried out with an “old model”, a second was carried out with a more recent system and considered “much more precise”, the “Binax”. This time the result was negative. This Trump saw as “full permission” to continue with his agenda.
A week after the event, Trump was in the hospital. On October 2, he announced on his Twitter account that he and his wife Melania had tested positive for COVID-19.
On Wednesday, however, the Republican billionaire maintained that Meadows’ claims are false. “The story that I had the covid before, or during, the first debate, are ‘fake news’. In fact, a test showed that he did not have covid before the debate, “he stressed.
Mark Meadows, a former Republican congressman, fully supported Trump in his harsh criticism of the election results, after which the violent invasion of the US Congress – the Capitol – took place on January 6.
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After resisting for weeks, on Tuesday Meadows agreed to testify before the House committee investigating that coup.
The committee wants to know if Trump and those around him, including Meadows, they were coordinated with the crowd of Republican supporters who invaded the Capitol and temporarily blocked congressmen from validating Biden’s victory.
Meadows remained on the back burner during his time at the White House, but the investigation and his book have put him in the limelight. (I)
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