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sunonmars

(8,657 posts)
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:22 PM Oct 2020

White House are covering up Trumps testing.

"My understanding is that it’s his private medical history," White House comms director Alyssa Farah says when asked again when the president's last negative test. “The doctors would like to keep it private since it’s his private medical history."





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They are running away from this as far they can.

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Ohiogal

(40,578 posts)
2. Uh huh.
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:27 PM
Oct 2020

So .... that just about seals it. He’s never been tested, despite all his staffers saying that he’s tested multiple times a day. I suspected as much.

Another grand lie.

 

brewens

(15,359 posts)
6. He was tested at least one time, then likely refused because he didn't like it. I was appalled
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:32 PM
Oct 2020

every time he bitched about the test being unpleasant. Just what we needed. Trump discouraging people from being tested. Sure there are things you'd rather do than having a swab put up your nose, but it wasn't that bad.

meadowlander

(5,133 posts)
4. Then why was their previous statement that he was getting daily tests not "private medical history"?
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:29 PM
Oct 2020
 

brewens

(15,359 posts)
5. He can waive any part of his medical history he wants, and he should want to show us he
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:29 PM
Oct 2020

was clean at least up to last Thursday evening. But he should have been quarantining anyway.

bottomofthehill

(9,390 posts)
10. Just like his taxes. He can release his medical records any time
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:38 PM
Oct 2020

He won’t because he knows the American public will not tolerate the answers.

kskiska

(27,165 posts)
8. Then there's this...
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:36 PM
Oct 2020

The treatment that Trump touted as a ‘cure’ for Covid-19 was developed using cells derived from fetal tissue.

The antibody cocktail for Covid-19 that President Trump touted on Wednesday afternoon was developed with cells originally derived from fetal tissue, a practice that his administration has moved to restrict.

In June 2019, the Trump administration suspended federal funding for most new scientific research involving fetal tissue derived from abortions.

“Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the very top priorities of President Trump’s administration,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement in 2019, around the time of the ban.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/08/world/covid-coronavirus?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20201008&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=13102675&segment_id=40317&user_id=172a2e8abbbd9298e8fb96fb85fa4771#the-treatment-that-trump-touted-as-a-cure-for-covid-19-was-developed-using-cells-derived-from-fetal-tissue

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
11. Can his White House cook pull the same stunt?
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:42 PM
Oct 2020

"Yes Mr. President, I was tested, but the results are my private personal medical history..ahem haaack, you want more salt with that?

RockRaven

(19,375 posts)
12. I bet he got sick of being swabbed and refused to continue to get tested day after day.
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:43 PM
Oct 2020

His last negative test was probably an embarrassingly and irresponsibly long time ago.

Jon Fogerty

(45 posts)
13. Why not just lie, again...
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:51 PM
Oct 2020

This Administration has lied about virtually everything, including his own Walter Reed doctor, why not just lie and say he tested negative on Wednesday, a day after debate and a day before his Thursday positive result. It's weird how they pick n choose which lies to spread. Even if they get caught lying, they just shrug their shoulders, anyway.

The Magistrate

(96,043 posts)
14. Chief Of State Is Not A Private Person, Sir
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 03:51 PM
Oct 2020

He is a public functionary. In the old monarchies, a good many things, including consumation of the wedding, were attended by audiences....

underpants

(196,495 posts)
15. Yeah but he does have HIPAA rights
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 04:00 PM
Oct 2020

Just saying. Of course everyone else releases enough to give a good picture. Not him though of course.

dlk

(13,247 posts)
16. What are the odds Trump has had little or no testing done
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 04:08 PM
Oct 2020

Given who he is, it wouldn’t be surprising.

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