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It was a crazy weekend for Americans. Your President Donald Trump has been infected with Corona and is being taken to a military hospital by helicopter, and yet the public is clearly only learning half-truths about the Commander-in-Chief’s health. Doctors say this, the chief of staff that – and in the end almost everyone has to correct themselves or at least clarify their statements. And above all there is the question: How is the most powerful man in the world really doing?
The news chaos started no later than Saturday. The president of the United States spent his first night at Walter Reed Military Hospital in Bethesda when his personal physician, Sean Conley, appeared before reporters there. Conley is flanked by nine colleagues in white coats, his mission: to educate Americans about Trump’s health. The performance lasted less than 13 minutes. After that, not only the uncertainty, but also the distrust of the White House is even greater than before.
THE ANONYMOUS SOURCE
Conley and his team of doctors painted an upbeat picture of the 74-year-old’s condition in front of reporters on Saturday, but just minutes after the end of the briefing, an anonymous source gave reporters completely different information: ” The president’s values in the last 24 hours have been very high, worrying, “he says. The next 48 hours would be crucial. “We are not yet on a clear path to a full recovery.” It is later discovered that the source was Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows. CNN journalist Jim Acosta wrote on Twitter Sunday, citing informed circles, that Trump was pissed off at Meadows for his remarks.
THE DOCTOR evades
Even without the Meadows cross shot, Conley’s appearance on Saturday raises numerous questions. The doctor does not respond to how high Trump’s fever was. There is no information on how Trump may have been infected. The doctor repeatedly evades the question of whether Trump needed additional oxygen at some point in the course of his Covid 19 illness. “He is not receiving oxygen right now,” Conley responds more than once. Why Conley squirms like this soon becomes clear: The New York Times reports that Trump had breathing problems on Friday and was given oxygen.
“COULD SYMPTOMS”?
Meadows admitted Saturday night on Fox News: “Yesterday we were really worried. I had a fever and the oxygen levels in my blood had dropped rapidly.” On Friday, the chief of staff told reporters that Trump was showing only “mild symptoms” and that the president was “in a good mood” and very energetic. On Sunday, Conley also admits that Trump’s oxygen levels had dropped, not just on Friday, but on Saturday as well.
ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY
The personal doctor tried to justify himself on Sunday: “I tried to reflect the optimistic attitude shown by the team, the president and his illness. I did not want to give any information that could lead the disease in another direction. And it seemed as if we were trying to hide something that was not necessarily correct. ” Not necessarily? Anyway, Conley says, “The fact is, he’s doing very well.” His colleague Brian Garibaldi adds that if Trump continues to do so well, “hopefully we can plan for the White House discharge tomorrow.”
WHEN WERE THE RESULTS OF THE TRUMPS TEST?
Trump’s personal physician leaves another key question unanswered: when the president last tested negative. Instead, Conley causes confusion when he said Saturday that the corona diagnosis was “72 hours ago.” That would be devastating to Trump’s reputation: Then he would have known he was highly contagious and would still have met with donors in Minnesota and New Jersey on Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon to raise money for his election campaign.
Still, the president is coming under fire because the White House knew before their meeting Thursday that one of his closest advisers was infected with the virus. A little later, Conley wrote a “clarification” distributed by the White House in which he claimed that he had been misstated. In fact, Trump’s positive test result was only available Thursday night.
TRUMP AND THE HOSPITALS
“New York Times” journalist Maggie Haberman wrote on Twitter in anticipation of Conley’s appearance on Saturday that the doctor had put her credibility at risk. “This is partly because he is complying with the wishes of a patient who does not want yesterday’s information released,” Haberman’s tweets said, citing Trump’s surroundings. Throughout his life, Trump had a phobia of disease and an extreme distrust of hospitals. “He wouldn’t have gone to a hospital if he was relatively well.”
A PURE CAUTION?
CNN reports that aides should have urged Trump to get into the helicopter that took him to the hospital Friday night. The White House had spoken of a purely precautionary measure. Trump, who has actually planned many appearances in about a month before the election, said in a video message Friday night: “I think I am doing very well.” On Saturday night he seems to contradict himself in hindsight when he says in a hospital video: “I came here, I didn’t feel so good.” But now he is “much better”.
DER FALL BORIS JOHNSON
Regarding his contagion, Trump also assures that “the true test” will not be before him until the next few days. This is reminiscent of his friend Boris Johnson’s Covid 19 disease. The British prime minister also initially spoke of “mild symptoms”. Johnson’s transfer to the hospital was also called a “precaution” by the government. Nine days after his positive test, Johnson was in the intensive care unit.
LETTER FROM A SUSPECTIVE DOCTOR
Even before his illness, Trump’s credibility (not only) in medical matters was in bad shape. His campaign team submitted a letter in 2015 from a doctor named Harold Bornstein, saying, “I can clearly say that if Mr. Trump is elected, he will be the healthiest person ever elected president.” The style probably didn’t recall the superlative president for nothing. Bornstein told CNN nearly two and a half years ago: “He dictated the entire letter. I did not write this letter.”
CAN YOU TRUST THE WHITE HOUSE?
The Washington Post believes that this White House cannot be trusted to provide accurate information about Trump’s health. The Axios news site even writes about a “cover-up” in a newsletter and asks why the contradictions are being presented to the public. Even White House employees and Trump’s campaign team have been at a loss since Meadow’s remarks about what is really happening. “Like us, they have little faith in what they are told.”
