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Trump’s personal physician raises more questions than he answers at a press conference. The message should be: The president is doing very well. Instead, it became clear that the White House was still not telling the truth.
If Donald Trump’s personal physician is right, the president has visited election campaign events multiple times by plane, despite the Covid 19 diagnosis.
The president’s personal physician, Sean Conley, drew an extremely positive picture of Donald Trump’s state of health on Saturday morning (local time), but at the same time stubbornly sidestepped certain questions and indicated several times that the White House was briefed on Trump’s infection before Trump’s Twitter messages would have suggested. At the same time, the number of prominent Republicans infected with Sars-CoV-2 increased steadily. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was also affected. Like other infected people, he had participated in the ceremony with which Trump celebrated the appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court last Saturday in the rose garden of the White House – with almost total neglect.
Large caliber in therapy
According to Trump’s personal physician, the prominent patient is monitored and cared for around the clock in a special presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. His symptoms (mild fever, nasal congestion, and fatigue) have improved. The president has now been fever-free for 24 hours and is in a good mood. He even joked that he felt fit enough to leave the hospital.
Conley confirmed that Trump had received several experimental drugs, including an antibody cocktail and the antiviral drug remdesivir. Both therapies have been approved by the FDA for Covid-19 treatments in emergencies. This suggests that doctors acted with the highest caliber possible against the virus, and that at a very early stage of the disease.
Conley declined to comment on how long Trump would remain in the hospital as a precaution. Most experts believe that a drastic deterioration in health can only be ruled out with a certain degree of certainty after 14 days.
With some of his statements, Conley gave the impression that he wanted or had to spread a predetermined and sunny image of Trump’s health. She repeatedly stressed that the president did not need additional oxygen “this morning,” but she stubbornly refused to answer the question posed multiple times whether this had been necessary since Trump fell ill. When asked about possible lung tissue injury, he praised ultrasound examinations, avoided extensive examinations, and stated that the heart, kidneys and liver were functioning normally.
72, not 36 hours
What caused the most emotion were the personal physician’s comments about the timing of the dramatic events surrounding the president’s infection. He said Saturday morning that Trump’s diagnosis was 72 hours old. That would mean the White House had been aware of the infection since Wednesday morning, not just Thursday night, as it was previously known. That would be a significant difference of 36 hours. Trump himself announced his infection in a Twitter message on Friday morning. He had previously attended election campaign events on Wednesday and Thursday and had been on the plane several times.
A few hours later, Conley announced that she had made a promise. Donald Trump tested positive for the first time Thursday night.
The fact that it could be a slip on the part of the personal physician is also not convincing. Another member of Trump’s medical team said the president had received the cocktail of experimental antibodies “about 48 hours earlier” on Thursday morning. That would mean Trump knowingly traveled to Bedminster, NJ, meeting high-ranking donors from around the country with a positive test result and even while receiving medical treatment for Covid-19.
The old credibility problem
The doctors’ press conference only confirmed once again that the White House under Trump has a huge credibility problem. Trump himself is a notorious liar, and his indifferent handling of the truth has become a trademark of his administration. Especially when it comes to the health of the president, one is used to some grotesque exaggerations. His former doctor distributed a representation giving the material for the captions, but then he had to watch as a White House employee and a bodyguard removed his files on Trump. The former official White House physician, Ronnie Jackson, went down in the annals with fiery hymns of praise for Trump’s health, costing him the respect of his colleagues.
So it is not surprising that shortly after the upbeat press conference, the US media cited anonymous sources describing a different and significantly darker picture. The New York Times reported that Trump had difficulty breathing on Friday and that the oxygen saturation in his blood had dropped. He needed extra oxygen, which led to the decision to take him to the hospital.
