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Covid-19: Trump tested positive before debate with Biden? His ex-chief of staff rekindles suspicion

2021-12-01T17:00:36.884Z


Donald Trump had claimed to have screened before debating with Joe Biden, ahead of the US presidential elections.


Debate, at the risk of transmitting.

A few days after his televised debate against Joe Biden, on September 29, 2020, Donald Trump was hospitalized, sick with Covid-19 Since then, he assures that he had tested negative before the event.

In a book of revelation, leafed through in preview this Wednesday by the British weekly The Guardian, his former chief of staff says the opposite.

The former president of the United States would have knowingly maintained his meeting, while a test among the two carried out would have been positive.

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Mark Meadows, the last chief of staff of the former president thus tells to have warned Donald Trump of this positive test while the latter was aboard Air Force One, en route for a campaign rally, a few days before the debate.

He indicates that after this positive test, carried out with an “old model”, a second test was carried out with a more recent system and considered “much more precise”, the “Binax” model.

This time the result was negative.

Too late for another screening

Another test might have been able to decide, but the former president of the United States arrived too late to be tested on the spot, the day of the debate, according to the journalist who animated the exchange between the two candidates.

An "infox" for Donald Trump, who immediately responded by press release on Wednesday: "The story that I had the Covid before, or during, the first debate, these are fake news.

In fact, a test showed that I did not have the Covid before the debate, ”he said.

His former chief of staff assures him that he found Donald Trump, then 74 years old, more tired than usual before the debate with Joe Biden (77 years old at the time).

Regardless of the result of the test, according to Mark Meadows "nothing was going to prevent Trump" from debating his Democratic opponent in the 2020 presidential election, he says in his book, which should be published next week.

Three days after the debate in question, on October 2, 2020, the White House announced that Donald Trump had just tested positive for Covid-19, shortly before he was taken to hospital, where he remained three nights.

Mark Meadows is the first of the former president's relatives to have agreed to collaborate with the parliamentary committee which is currently investigating the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, by a crowd of Donald Trump supporters.

Source: leparis

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