Here’s the evidence that suggests the White House knew of Trump’s illness before debate — but deliberately hid it

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Even after rattling off various positive measures of Donald Trump’s health in various press conferences, White House physician Dr. Sean Conley has been adamant about not answering one of the most vital questions facing those exposed to Trump in recent days: When was the last time testing showed Trump was not carrying the pandemic virus that would send him to the hospital only a day after the White House admitted he was sick?

That’s important, because it would allow those who came into contact with Trump during last Tuesday’s presidential debate to know whether they spent 90 minutes in an enclosed space with a COVID-19 carrier shouting at them for most of that time—one of the precise scenarios that experts warn is mostlikely to result in pandemic spread.

It’s also important because all evidence so far points to the White House knowing of Trump’s illness at least as of Monday, before the debate. And it’s important because the pattern of infections coming out of the White House do not appear to correlate with people who attended the Rose Garden celebration the previous weekend. They appear to more closely correlate with people known to have spent significant amounts of time in proximity to Donald Trump himself. Continue reading.