White House Feared 'Incredibly Sick' Donald Trump Would Die of COVID--Author

[Eugene]

Source: Newsweek

White House Feared 'Incredibly Sick' Donald Trump Would Die of COVID—Author

BY BRENDAN COLE ON 7/16/21 AT 4:48 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump was far sicker from COVID-19 than was revealed publicly, according to a journalist whose book details the final throes of his administration.

Wall Street Journal senior White House reporter Michael Bender said that the state of the former president after he had contracted the disease in October 2020 was "worse than we knew," although he did not believe that the White House had conspired to keep his condition under wraps.

"The Trump White House was just not built in a way to ... coordinate any kind of high-level scheming to hide what happened," Bender told Mediaite. "It was Trump, he wasn't even talking to (Mark) Meadows, his chief of staff about what was happening.

"I'm not sure how much he consulted with the doctor on some of these things," Bender said, which meant there were a number of competing versions of when he tested positive."

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Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-feared-incredibly-sick-donald-trump-die-covid-author-michael-bender-1610332

[Ocelot II]

1. Some people were afraid he wouldn't...

[PortTack]

11. Count me in that group! The country and the world would have been so much better off!

[imavoter]

30. no, no....he would have been elevated...oh poor Trump died of covid, like he needs any sympathy. n/t

[Turbineguy]

12. DUZY!

[malaise]

21. +1

Me

[Corgigal]

25. Damn...

First comment too. Good job.

[Carlitos Brigante]

2. Yeah, he couldn't even succeed at that. What a quadruple loser.... nt

[SWBTATTReg]

3. I don't know, trump has lied so many times and so much, that nothing about trump is believable.

I wonder if this news report is one to invoke sorrow for trump being that he's under a lot of investigations, tax issues, etc.

He's bought all of this crap on himself so I, for one, don't have a shred of sorrow for him one bit.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. I wish he would have died of covid

We wouldn't have so many antivaxx idiots everywhere now.

[Lemon Lyman]

18. Unfortunately, I Doubt That's True

I'm sure the Clintons (who've apparently had their hands in half of the world's deaths over the past 50 years ) would've had something to do with his death, not Covid (which isn't real to many of these morons).

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

24. Same here!

And I would have been happy if it would have been agonizing and taken a while.

That is how much I hate that fucking evil prick.

[Trueblue1968]

26. yeah me too .... what a bummer.

[DemocraticPatriot]

28. I didn't want him to die before the election...

His departure might well have lessoned the sense of urgency to do something about him, and depressed turnout somewhat on our side... Of course in hindsight, it may have depressed turnout for the Republicans even more, with him gone.

MAGAts would probably have been jumping out of their 1st story windows. lol

[gratuitous]

5. Putting the "fun" in dysfunctional

By the time the former guy inevitably caught Covid, the only people left in his administration were so to-the-bone scared of him that nobody could think past the next potential mean tweet that his stubby little thumbs might stab out. So nobody was in a position to do anything if he became incapacitated or died.

Doesn't that just make everyone feel all warm and fuzzy?

[Vinca]

6. Wish they had told us that. It might have cheered us up.

[ecstatic]

7. The fucker tried to infect Biden

Honestly, I wish tfg had died. I'm not sure why the White House "feared" that outcome. It would have been the best thing for the entire world.

[SoonerPride]

8. If only.

Sigh

[11 Bravo]

9. Billy Joel nailed it.

"Only the Good Die Young".

[Pinback]

10. But he did die:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181531732

[Progressive Jones]

13. Unfortunately, .... nt

[elleng]

14. Sorry not sick enough.

[rickyhall]

15. So? What happened?

[Crunchy Frog]

16. That just about serves as proof that there is no God.

Or if there is one, he hates, or is indifferent to, this country.

[world wide wally]

17. Fucking tease

[Blue Owl]

19. Sigh...

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. Damn shame he didn't. So unfair.

[spanone]

22. that makes sense, they got every other fucking thing wrong too.

[Tommy Carcetti]

23. In retrospect, it would have been best if he had died.

No Big Lie.

No January 6th.

Although I’m sure there would be all sorts of conspiracy theories from the Trumpists that he was actually murdered by the “Deep State.”

So we’d essentially be in no win territory, I’m afraid.

[smirkymonkey]

27. Still, I would give anything to have that miserable POS off of this planet for

good. We just need to put a stake through his heart to make sure he stays dead.

If anyone could find a way to come back from the dead to make our lives a living hell, it would be him.

[dalton99a]

29. It was a grave injustice.

[Takket]

31. too bad he didn't. might have saved 100,000 or so... if it would hae eased some antivaxxers