{"id":1072253,"date":"2021-12-01T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1072253"},"modified":"2021-12-01T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:43:35","slug":"book-donald-trump-tested-positive-later-negative-for-coronavirus-before-first-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/book-donald-trump-tested-positive-later-negative-for-coronavirus-before-first-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Donald Trump Tested Positive (Later Negative) for Coronavirus Before First Presidential Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbook-donald-trump-tested-positive-later-negative-for-coronavirus-before-first-presidential-debate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1072253&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus three days before the first presidential debate with Joe Biden in September 2020, according to a new book by his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump tested positive, he took another test that showed up negative, Meadows wrote, which led staff to believe he could still attend the debate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Guardian<\/em> first reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/dec\/01\/trump-tested-positive-covid-before-biden-debate-chief-staff-mark-meadows-book\">details<\/a> of the book by Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>The new information has already prompted reporters to question whether Trump actually had the coronavirus before the debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHours after he received the call from Meadows informing him of a positive test, Trump came to the back of Air Force One without a mask and talked with reporters for about 10 minutes,\u201d <em>New York Times<\/em> reporter Michael Shear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shearm\/status\/1466040543474073601?s=21\">observed<\/a> on social media. \u201cI was wearing a mask, but still got COVID, testing positive several days later.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Former President Trump called the report \u201cFake News\u201d in a statement to reporters after cable news featured the new information on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story of me having COVID prior to, or during, the first debate is Fake News,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cIn fact, a test revealed that I did not have COVID prior to the debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14591437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1277459346.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14591437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1277459346.jpg\" alt=\"CLEVELAND, OHIO - SEPTEMBER 29: U.S. President Donald Trump participates in the first presidential debate against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. This is the first of three planned debates between the two candidates in the lead up to the election on November 3. (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Donald Trump participates in the first presidential debate against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Meadows\u2019 book, Trump\u2019s doctor informed him of the president\u2019s positive test as Trump traveled to a political rally in Pennsylvania on September 26.<\/p>\n<p>When Meadows called the president to inform him of the positive test, Trump replied, \u201cOh shit, you\u2019ve gotta be fucking kidding me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>He said Trump\u2019s positive test was from an older testing kit and doctors used a more modern system to test the president again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to take any unnecessary risks,\u201d Meadows wrote, \u201cBut I also didn\u2019t want to alarm the public if there was nothing to worry about \u2013 which according to the new, much more accurate test, there was not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump arrived at the presidential debate on September 29th as if nothing had happened, delivering his most confrontational debate performance against Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Three days after the debate, Trump announced on social media that he and his wife had officially tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows\u2019s book \u201cThe Chief\u2019s Chief\u201d will be released on December 7th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus three days before the first presidential debate with Joe Biden in September 2020, according to a new book by his former chief &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}