The Guardian reports:
Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 three days before his first debate against Joe Biden, the former president’s fourth and last chief of staff has revealed in a new book. Mark Meadows also writes that though he knew each candidate was required “to test negative for the virus within seventy two hours of the start time … Nothing was going to stop [Trump] from going out there”.
Trump, Meadows says in the book, returned a negative result from a different test shortly after the positive. Nonetheless, the stunning revelation of an unreported positive test follows a year of speculation about whether Trump, then 74 years old, had the potentially deadly virus when he faced Biden, 77, in Cleveland on 29 September – and what danger that might have presented. Trump announced he had Covid on 2 October.
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Bombshell: Trump tested positive for #COVID19 three days before stepping onto the debate stage with Biden, says his former chief of staff. https://t.co/fC5nhxaFPF
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) December 1, 2021
EXPLOSIVE—We now learn Trump had tested positive for #COVID19 **3 days** before his first debate against Joe Biden, says former chief of staff Mark Meadows—positive test on Sept 26th, same day as this WH’s infamous superspreading SCOTUS nominating event:?https://t.co/bP6xS1W9AJ pic.twitter.com/fhFrE8dDOy
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 1, 2021
Donald Trump tested positive for COVID days before his first Biden debate—and never disclosed it?
That’s the extraordinary claim in Mark Meadows’ new book, which has been obtained by The Guardian https://t.co/NSdQWi2J5n
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 1, 2021