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The Washington Post reports:
A major theme of the book is the culture of lies that pervaded Trump’s administration. “Casual dishonesty filtered through the White House as if it were in the air conditioning system,” Grisham writes. For example, in 2019, Trump went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center without disclosing to the media that he was going, or why.
It was a days-long mystery in the national news, but Grisham’s book strongly hints that the president went for a simple colonoscopy, without actually using the word. (She wrote that it was “a very common procedure” for which “a patient is sometimes put under” and that George W. Bush had one as president, too.)
As for the elaborate concealment — Grisham writes that Trump was resistant to having Vice President Mike Pence in power even for a short period of time, and he didn’t want to be “the butt of a joke” on late-night TV.
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It was a days-long mystery in the national news, but Grisham’s book strongly hints that the president went to Walter Reed for a simple colonoscopy
⁰She writes that Trump didn’t want Pence in charge or be “the butt of a joke” on late-night TV. https://t.co/xFtr7sh5Nd— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) September 28, 2021
So it’s low on immediate priority tasks but someone will eventually have to determine if Trump’s mystery medical procedure was a colonoscopy and if he was put under general anesthesia. If he was and he did fail to give Pence temporary power … oy https://t.co/wp2ReBaBxb
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 28, 2021