After earlier being assured that the President was in good spirits and was about to go home after climbing Mount Everest later today, we got this: __________
Trump’s Vital Signs ‘Very Concerning’ A source familiar with President Trump’s health told pool reporters: “The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”
And we had already heard that-- Trump’s Doctor Won’t Say If He’s Been on Oxygen _______
and then this--
Trump Has Been Given Oxygen 1:43 pm EDT
President Trump “was administered oxygen at the White House on Friday before he was transported to the military hospital,” the AP reports.
His doctor refused to answer questions on the topic from reporters earlier.
and now this--
Why Trump Might Be Hiding His Medical Condition Gabriel Sherman: “One reason Trump could be withholding truth of his condition: he doesn’t want calls for transfer of power to grow. At what point does Cabinet consider 25th amendment?” _________
Should they better keep the hearse and Pence nearby?
Meadows Led Clean Up of Doctor’s Briefing October 3, 2020 at 2:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
The unnamed source who provided more dire information about President Trump’s medical condition after the official briefing appears to be White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who spoke to reporters without cameras and was caught on a feed asking to be off the record. ____ The Associated Press actually named Meadows as the official contradicting Trump’s physician.
You should have stayed away Lil Schitty by the quality of the last 2 threads.............BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Moronic and stupid are apt descriptions.....Running real scared is your MO>>>>>>!!!!! Like I thought....getting honest information by anything trump is not going to happen....just like Lil Schitty's 2 million dead that he has now posted twice in 2 days!!!!!!!
Gabriel Sherman reports that conversations with Republicans close to White House over the last 12 hours indicate President Trump’s medical condition has been been far more dire than White House and doctors have said.
Before being taken to Walter Reed Medical Center, Trump kept asking aides: “Am I going out like Stan Chera? Am I?”
Chera was Trump’s New York City friend who died of Covid in April.
Trump Doctor’s Rosy Briefing Turns Into Code Red Debacle ‘VERY CONCERNING’ “The next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery,” a source told White House reporters. Daily Beast reporter Tracy Connor Updated 3:06PM
The first briefing by President Trump’s doctors since the public was told he has the coronavirus raised serious questions about his medical condition and when he actually tested positive.
Standing outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Dr. Sean Conley labored to paint a rosy picture of Trump’s health even as he repeatedly dodged questions about whether the president ever needed oxygen or how high his fever went.
And minutes after the briefing was over, a source familiar with the president’s situation—apparently White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, according to a reporter’s video—provided an anonymous and alarming statement to the White House pool reporters.
“The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery,” the statement said.
That clashed dramatically with the remarks by Trump’s pulmonologist, Dr. Sean Dooley, who said the president told him, “I feel like I could walk out of here today.” And in a Saturday afternoon tweet, Trump wrote that he was “feeling well!”
Conley said Trump’s trip to Walter Reed was purely precautionary and a nod to his role as commander-in-chief. But the anonymous statement—and reports by The New York Times and the Associated Press that he was given supplemental oxygen at the White House on Friday—suggested the situation was more severe.
The mixed messaging, evasion, and conflicting timeline marked a bizarre turn in the remarkable events that have been unfolding since 12:54 a.m. Friday morning—when Trump revealed that he and first lady Melania Trump had COVID-19.
Conley dropped a bombshell Saturday by saying it had been 72 hours since Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19, which would have made it Wednesday—some 36 hours before the public was informed, and also before the president traveled to several campaign events.
Conley also said the team “repeated testing” on Thursday afternoon after report of a close contact—which left open the possibility that Trump had a positive rapid antigen test earlier but was not quarantined until confirmation from the slower but more accurate PCR swab.
Further muddying the timeline, another of Trump’s doctors, Dr. Brian Garabaldi, said Trump received a “special antibody therapy directed at the coronavirus” 48 hours ago—which would be Thursday morning, more than a day before the White House put out a memo to say the president had been given the experimental infusion.
The doctors declined to answer follow-up questions about the timing but, an hour later, the White House claimed that Conley and Garibaldi had misspoken and actually meant to say it was Day 3 since a Thursday night diagnosis and Day 2 since the antibody therapy.
Another hour passed before Conley put out a written statement saying he “incorrectly” used the phrases 72 hours and 48 hours. “The President was first diagnosed with COVID-19 on the evening of Thursday, October 1st and had received Regeneron’s antibody cocktail on Friday, October 2nd,” the statement said.
But Conley refused to say at the briefing, and did not clarify in the statement, whether Trump had tested positive before “being diagnosed.”
At the briefing, Conley clearly chose his words carefully to present a picture of stability and refused to provide some details about Trump’s illness.
“This morning, the president is doing very well,” Conley said, adding that the medical team is pleased with his progress.
But his comments raised far more questions than they answered. For instance, asked whether Trump had lung damage, Conley said he had undergone ultrasounds. That did not answer the lung question and created another: Were the ultrasounds for his lung or for another body part, like the heart?
Trump announced his diagnosis shortly after reporters broke the news that Hicks, who traveled with Trump several times in prior days, had tested positive. The White House said it learned of Hicks’ diagnosis on Thursday afternoon, “right as Marine One was taking off” with Trump for a fundraiser at his golf club in New Jersey. The fundraiser went ahead regardless.
In the aftermath of Trump’s diagnosis, footage has circulated of him interacting with other prominent officials and members of the GOP in the last several days. In the past 24 hours, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) have announced positive test results.
At Least 8 Who Attended Rose Garden Event Have COVID
On Friday morning, the administration had been adamant that the president would continue to work as usual. But he missed the one item on his public schedule for Friday, a noon phone call with state leaders about COVID-19.
By Friday afternoon, the administration said that the commander-in-chief would be airlifted to Walter Reed. “Going well, I think!” Trump tweeted Hours after his hospital admission. “Thank you to all. LOVE!!!”
At the time, Trump was experiencing a low-grade fever, with chills, nasal congestion, and a cough.
The October of Doom for Republicans Josh Kraushaar: “Arrogance and ignorance are a toxic combination in politics. This week’s case study: The Trump administration’s inability to showcase basic competence and prudence in the middle of a pandemic has crippled the president’s already hobbled campaign, as time for a miraculous turnaround is expiring.
“In a way, the immediate political implications will be inconsequential. Already trailing Joe Biden badly in the polls, it’s downright implausible that Trump will win any persuadable voters after this week of recklessness.
"Remember: The week began with news of Trump’s tax avoidance, and nearly ended with controversy over his unwillingness to forthrightly condemn white supremacism. Sandwiched in between was 1) an embarrassing, self-destructive debate performance. 2) Then coronavirus came to the White House.
“Will the bottom fall out for Republicans, as it did in polling over the summer as he proved himself unable to control the pandemic?
"That’s a known unknown, complicated by the uncertainty of the president’s long-term prognosis.
"It’s possible that Trump could benefit from some obligatory bipartisan sympathy as he recovers from his illness. But for a campaign that isn’t planning to stop its negative attack ads during this national moment of crisis —even as the Biden campaign stood down, showcasing some much-needed empathy— it’s hard to see any groundswell of support boosting the incumbent.”
Virus Slams Into a Broken Washington
“Let’s not mince words: Washington has been plunged into a crisis of historic proportions, frozen by a disease it is both unwilling and unable to control,” Politico reports.
“Washington crises typically conform to a predictable rhythm: They simmer, boil and come to their expected conclusion. The government shuts down for a few days, but it always reopens. A national security emergency demands an urgent response — and gets one.
“But this time, America’s capital itself is crippled, leaving the country rudderless, leaderless and riven with bitter partisan fighting in the middle of a pandemic that has already claimed more than 200,000 lives and is nowhere near over.”
Trump Relaying Messages Through Rudy Giuliani 5:14 pm EDT The New York Post (a Trump sycophant paper) reports President Trump phoned Rudy Giuliani from his hospital bed Saturday afternoon to declare he feels so healthy, “I could get out of here right now.”
The president dictated a statement to Giuliani:
“You go tell people I’m watching this coverage. I feel I could get out of here right now. But they’re telling me there can always be a backstep with this disease. But I feel I could go out and do a rally.
“I am the president of the United States. I can’t lock myself in a room. … I had to confront the virus so the American people stopped being afraid of it so we could deal with it responsibly." ____________
Good. Show us you are not afraid of it by rising from your bed and go out conducting rallies without masks or distancing again.
Multiple sources in the White House and on the Trump campaign have reached out to Jonathan Swan since White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ statement earlier today and told him they’re utterly perplexed about what’s going on.
CNN)The White House physician, surrounded by a group of other doctors, emerged just before noon on Saturday from Walter Reed medical center to give a sunny update on President Donald Trump's condition after his positive Covid-19 diagnosis.
"This morning the President is doing very well," said Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley, adding: "The President is fever-free for over 24 hours."
Roughly half an hour after that rosy assessment, came this from a "source familiar with the President's health" speaking to the print and TV pool reporters, "The President's vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We are still not on a clear path to a full recovery."
Uh, what? It's not hard to reconcile what Conley said about Trump's current condition with what the "source familiar with the President's health" said mere minutes later. It's impossible to reconcile the two statements.
And the net result is that the public has no real idea what condition Trump is actually in. Does he have a very mild case of the virus as spokespeople and allies -- and Conley -- have suggested since we learned he was positive for coronavirus early Friday morning? And that he was taken to the hospital out of an abundance of caution? Or are there real concerns that Trump's condition is far more serious, as the use of an experimental Regeneron polyclonal antibody cocktail -- not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration -- and the eerie background quote suggest?
There's simply no way of knowing, which is the problem. The President of the United States is the single most powerful person in the country -- and one of the most powerful in the world. The specifics of his current health matter for a number of reasons, but chief among them is -- if he is indeed sicker than Conley is letting on -- maintaining the continuity of government.
Within the restricted intelligence knowledge, the American people have the right to know how the President is doing
23 comments:
After earlier being assured that the President was in good spirits and was about to go home after climbing Mount Everest later today,
we got this:
__________
Trump’s Vital Signs ‘Very Concerning’
A source familiar with President Trump’s health told pool reporters:
“The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”
And we had already heard that--
Trump’s Doctor Won’t Say If He’s Been on Oxygen
_______
and then this--
Trump Has Been Given Oxygen
1:43 pm EDT
President Trump “was administered oxygen at the White House on Friday before he was transported to the military hospital,” the AP reports.
His doctor refused to answer questions on the topic from reporters earlier.
and now this--
Why Trump Might Be Hiding His Medical Condition
Gabriel Sherman:
“One reason Trump could be withholding truth of his condition: he doesn’t want calls for transfer of power to grow. At what point does Cabinet consider 25th amendment?”
_________
Should they better keep the hearse and Pence nearby?
Meadows Led Clean Up of Doctor’s Briefing
October 3, 2020 at 2:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
The unnamed source who provided more dire information about President Trump’s medical condition after the official briefing appears to be White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who spoke to reporters without cameras and was caught on a feed asking to be off the record.
____
The Associated Press actually named Meadows as the official contradicting Trump’s physician.
Why would he do that -- provide information "more dire" and contradicting what the President's physician said?
Are we being prepared for something dire, Ch?
You should have stayed away Lil Schitty by the quality of the last 2 threads.............BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Moronic and stupid are apt descriptions.....Running real scared is your MO>>>>>>!!!!! Like I thought....getting honest information by anything trump is not going to happen....just like Lil Schitty's 2 million dead that he has now posted twice in 2 days!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!!
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Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
Florida: Trump vs. Biden NY Times/Siena* Biden 47, Trump 42 Biden +5
Pennsylvania: Trump vs. Biden NY Times/Siena* Biden 49, Trump 42 Biden +7
Chris Christie tests positive!!!!!!!!
Trump’s Doctor Won’t Say If He’s Been on Oxygen
As a matter of fact, he did. He's not on oxygen.
As a matter of fact, the question was,
has he BEEN on oxygen, genius?
And the fact is, he HAS been.
Now get ready for this next post, Mr. smart guy.
Trump’s Condition Was More Dire Than Reported
Gabriel Sherman reports that conversations with Republicans close to White House over the last 12 hours indicate President Trump’s medical condition has been been far more dire than White House and doctors have said.
Before being taken to Walter Reed Medical Center, Trump kept asking aides: “Am I going out like Stan Chera? Am I?”
Chera was Trump’s New York City friend who died of Covid in April.
Trump Doctor’s Rosy Briefing Turns Into Code Red Debacle
‘VERY CONCERNING’
“The next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery,” a source told White House reporters.
Daily Beast reporter Tracy Connor
Updated 3:06PM
The first briefing by President Trump’s doctors since the public was told he has the coronavirus raised serious questions about his medical condition and when he actually tested positive.
Standing outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Dr. Sean Conley labored to paint a rosy picture of Trump’s health even as he repeatedly dodged questions about whether the president ever needed oxygen or how high his fever went.
And minutes after the briefing was over, a source familiar with the president’s situation—apparently White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, according to a reporter’s video—provided an anonymous and alarming statement to the White House pool reporters.
“The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery,” the statement said.
That clashed dramatically with the remarks by Trump’s pulmonologist, Dr. Sean Dooley, who said the president told him, “I feel like I could walk out of here today.” And in a Saturday afternoon tweet, Trump wrote that he was “feeling well!”
Conley said Trump’s trip to Walter Reed was purely precautionary and a nod to his role as commander-in-chief. But the anonymous statement—and reports by The New York Times and the Associated Press that he was given supplemental oxygen at the White House on Friday—suggested the situation was more severe.
The mixed messaging, evasion, and conflicting timeline marked a bizarre turn in the remarkable events that have been unfolding since 12:54 a.m. Friday morning—when Trump revealed that he and first lady Melania Trump had COVID-19.
Conley dropped a bombshell Saturday by saying it had been 72 hours since Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19, which would have made it Wednesday—some 36 hours before the public was informed, and also before the president traveled to several campaign events.
Conley also said the team “repeated testing” on Thursday afternoon after report of a close contact—which left open the possibility that Trump had a positive rapid antigen test earlier but was not quarantined until confirmation from the slower but more accurate PCR swab.
Further muddying the timeline, another of Trump’s doctors, Dr. Brian Garabaldi, said Trump received a “special antibody therapy directed at the coronavirus” 48 hours ago—which would be Thursday morning, more than a day before the White House put out a memo to say the president had been given the experimental infusion.
The doctors declined to answer follow-up questions about the timing but, an hour later, the White House claimed that Conley and Garibaldi had misspoken and actually meant to say it was Day 3 since a Thursday night diagnosis and Day 2 since the antibody therapy.
Another hour passed before Conley put out a written statement saying he “incorrectly” used the phrases 72 hours and 48 hours. “The President was first diagnosed with COVID-19 on the evening of Thursday, October 1st and had received Regeneron’s antibody cocktail on Friday, October 2nd,” the statement said.
But Conley refused to say at the briefing, and did not clarify in the statement, whether Trump had tested positive before “being diagnosed.”
At the briefing, Conley clearly chose his words carefully to present a picture of stability and refused to provide some details about Trump’s illness.
“This morning, the president is doing very well,” Conley said, adding that the medical team is pleased with his progress.
But his comments raised far more questions than they answered. For instance, asked whether Trump had lung damage, Conley said he had undergone ultrasounds. That did not answer the lung question and created another: Were the ultrasounds for his lung or for another body part, like the heart?
Trump announced his diagnosis shortly after reporters broke the news that Hicks, who traveled with Trump several times in prior days, had tested positive. The White House said it learned of Hicks’ diagnosis on Thursday afternoon, “right as Marine One was taking off” with Trump for a fundraiser at his golf club in New Jersey. The fundraiser went ahead regardless.
In the aftermath of Trump’s diagnosis, footage has circulated of him interacting with other prominent officials and members of the GOP in the last several days. In the past 24 hours, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) have announced positive test results.
At Least 8 Who Attended Rose Garden Event Have COVID
On Friday morning, the administration had been adamant that the president would continue to work as usual. But he missed the one item on his public schedule for Friday, a noon phone call with state leaders about COVID-19.
By Friday afternoon, the administration said that the commander-in-chief would be airlifted to Walter Reed. “Going well, I think!” Trump tweeted Hours after his hospital admission. “Thank you to all. LOVE!!!”
At the time, Trump was experiencing a low-grade fever, with chills, nasal congestion, and a cough.
The October of Doom for Republicans
Josh Kraushaar:
“Arrogance and ignorance are a toxic combination in politics. This week’s case study: The Trump administration’s inability to showcase basic competence and prudence in the middle of a pandemic has crippled the president’s already hobbled campaign, as time for a miraculous turnaround is expiring.
“In a way, the immediate political implications will be inconsequential.
Already trailing Joe Biden badly in the polls, it’s downright implausible that Trump will win any persuadable voters after this week of recklessness.
"Remember:
The week began with news of Trump’s tax avoidance,
and nearly ended with controversy over his unwillingness to forthrightly condemn white supremacism.
Sandwiched in between was
1) an embarrassing, self-destructive debate performance.
2) Then coronavirus came to the White House.
“Will the bottom fall out for Republicans, as it did in polling over the summer as he proved himself unable to control the pandemic?
"That’s a known unknown, complicated by the uncertainty of the president’s long-term prognosis.
"It’s possible that Trump could benefit from some obligatory bipartisan sympathy as he recovers from his illness.
But for a campaign that isn’t planning to stop its negative attack ads during this national moment of crisis
—even as the Biden campaign stood down, showcasing some much-needed empathy—
it’s hard to see any groundswell of support boosting the incumbent.”
Virus Slams Into a Broken Washington
“Let’s not mince words: Washington has been plunged into a crisis of historic proportions, frozen by a disease it is both unwilling and unable to control,” Politico reports.
“Washington crises typically conform to a predictable rhythm: They simmer, boil and come to their expected conclusion. The government shuts down for a few days, but it always reopens. A national security emergency demands an urgent response — and gets one.
“But this time, America’s capital itself is crippled, leaving the country rudderless, leaderless and riven with bitter partisan fighting in the middle of a pandemic that has already claimed more than 200,000 lives and is nowhere near over.”
Trump Relaying Messages Through Rudy Giuliani
5:14 pm EDT
The New York Post (a Trump sycophant paper)
reports
President Trump phoned Rudy Giuliani from his hospital bed Saturday afternoon to declare he feels so healthy, “I could get out of here right now.”
The president dictated a statement to Giuliani:
“You go tell people I’m watching this coverage. I feel I could get out of here right now. But they’re telling me there can always be a backstep with this disease. But I feel I could go out and do a rally.
“I am the president of the United States. I can’t lock myself in a room. … I had to confront the virus so the American people stopped being afraid of it so we could deal with it responsibly."
____________
Good. Show us you are not afraid of it by rising from your bed and go out conducting rallies without masks or distancing again.
Trump Staffers Don’t Know What’s Going On
Multiple sources in the White House and on the Trump campaign have reached out to Jonathan Swan since White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ statement earlier today and told him they’re utterly perplexed about what’s going on.
Some sort of cover up, perhapss?
Chris Christie In the Hospital
Former Gov. Chris Christie announced he has checked himself into the hospital after testing positive for the novel coronavirus.
We're about to find out if Remdesivir is effective or not. Dems don't want the country thinking it's a good treatment.
A medical doctor speaking publicly vs some anonymous source. Only an idiot would cling to the latter.
White House Physician: The president's cardiac and pulmonary functions are normal.
CNN)The White House physician, surrounded by a group of other doctors, emerged just before noon on Saturday from Walter Reed medical center to give a sunny update on President Donald Trump's condition after his positive Covid-19 diagnosis.
"This morning the President is doing very well," said Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley, adding: "The President is fever-free for over 24 hours."
Roughly half an hour after that rosy assessment, came this from a "source familiar with the President's health" speaking to the print and TV pool reporters, "The President's vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We are still not on a clear path to a full recovery."
Uh, what? It's not hard to reconcile what Conley said about Trump's current condition with what the "source familiar with the President's health" said mere minutes later. It's impossible to reconcile the two statements.
And the net result is that the public has no real idea what condition Trump is actually in. Does he have a very mild case of the virus as spokespeople and allies -- and Conley -- have suggested since we learned he was positive for coronavirus early Friday morning? And that he was taken to the hospital out of an abundance of caution? Or are there real concerns that Trump's condition is far more serious, as the use of an experimental Regeneron polyclonal antibody cocktail -- not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration -- and the eerie background quote suggest?
There's simply no way of knowing, which is the problem. The President of the United States is the single most powerful person in the country -- and one of the most powerful in the world. The specifics of his current health matter for a number of reasons, but chief among them is -- if he is indeed sicker than Conley is letting on -- maintaining the continuity of government.
Within the restricted intelligence knowledge, the American people have the right to know how the President is doing
I'll take the doctor over some anonymous source.
Why isn't he taking hydroxychloroquine?
Remdesivir is said to be very effective too.
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