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When Sean Conley, the White House physician, ended the press conference in which he briefed reporters on Donald Trump’s health, he left the pulpit in front of Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington. the Chief of Staff greeted the President of the United States, Mark Meadows, who followed the session outside the building and returned to the hospital.
By this time, the cameras should have stopped streaming. However, one of them continued filming and broadcasting. What happened next is a common habit right now. Several of the journalists present went to Trump’s chief of staff to answer essentially logistical questions, that is, to ask him when and where he would be next. instructions and confirm the names of all the doctors on the president’s clinical team who had been at the press conference.
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Through the images of this camera that he continued filming, something else could be seen: at some point, Trump’s chief of staff asks journalists to speak off the record, leaving with a group of reporters from the area where the cameras were installed.
Shortly thereafter, a series of reports began to circulate in various media that contradicted many of the more optimistic statements of Trump’s doctors, all attributed to a “source with knowledge of the state of health” of the president who had spoken with accredited journalists. in the White House.
The central information was a direct contradiction of what the doctor had said about Donald Trump’s general health: “He is doing very well.” Meadows told reporters that, in fact, “The president’s vital signs in the last 24 hours have been very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his medical care.“. Meadows also added: “We are not yet on the road to a full recovery.” The news was released initially with the information attributed to the anonymous source, but shortly after the extract of the transmission began to circulate on the internet, making it clear who the source was.
UPDATE: Immediately after the press conference ended and before the anonymous statement was sent, Mark Meadows informed reporters without cameras, but was caught on a broadcast asking not to register. pic.twitter.com/JyrhSmu1Y0
– Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 3, 2020
That was not the only contradiction detected between the official speech of the doctor and the information that emerged after the press conference in the media.
Sean Conley had claimed that Trump had been diagnosed 72 hours ago, which did not quite match the official information (and would mean that the president had already been to a public event after testing positive for the coronavirus). The doctor then issued an official correction, saying that he had misused the expression “72 hours“, When he intended to say”three days ago“.
On the other hand, Sean Conley had also declined to answer questions about whether Trump needed supplemental oxygen to help him breathe. After Conley said the US president was not having trouble breathing, information surfaced in The New York Times indicating that Trump was having trouble breathing on Friday. At the same time, the Associated Press reported that Trump had, in fact, received supplemental oxygen at the White House, after Conley has always fixed the problem.
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