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The last time Trump said he tested negative for COVID-19 was in May, and the White House refuses to say if he's tested negative since
Business Insider ^ | 10/08/2020 | Jake Lahut and Oma Seddiq

Posted on 10/08/2020 8:03:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Despite the seismic implications of the president of the US contracting a deadly and highly infectious disease with no cure, the White House is still providing very little basic information about President Donald Trump's coronavirus status.

Aside from his positive-test announcement on Friday — which led to him being hospitalized with COVID-19 for three nights — the last time Trump was on the record talking about taking a test was in May, when he said, "I tested positively toward negative."

Between Trump's "positively toward negative" disclosure on May 21 and the tweet confirming he had tested positive for COVID-19 on October 2, the White House would not point Insider toward any specific instances when Trump even took a test.

At one point in July, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Trump was tested "multiple times a day." He contradicted her later in the day and said he couldn't recall taking more than one in 24 hours.

McEnany, along with other White House officials, such as spokeswoman Alyssa Farah, have declined to specify when Trump takes coronavirus tests or the last time he tested negative.

"I can't reveal that at this time. Doctors would like to keep it private," Farah said on Thursday.

The president attended 113 public events between his last known negative test and the night before he disclosed he had COVID-19, according to a database of his travel and events calendar from Factba.se, a site with a variety of Trump-related databases.

Insider asked the White House repeatedly on Thursday how often the president is tested, when his last test was, and if it had disclosed any tests taken since May 21.

"The president is tested regularly," a White House spokesman said in an email.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


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1 posted on 10/08/2020 8:03:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

HIPAA


2 posted on 10/08/2020 8:04:47 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: SeekAndFind

Business Stuff is peddling BS again.

Lone nutter conspiracy theory rag


3 posted on 10/08/2020 8:06:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: SeekAndFind

Remember that he was taking HCQ for a time. Maybe he didn’t just do that for the fun of it. MY guess is that the dark side has been trying to expose him the Covid for some time.


4 posted on 10/08/2020 8:06:52 PM PDT by Revel
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To: SeekAndFind
Despite the seismic implications of the president of the US contracting a deadly and highly infectious disease with no cure....

OMG 😱😱😱we're ALL gonna die, because of POTUS infecting all of us!!!


5 posted on 10/08/2020 8:07:37 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: SeekAndFind; SunkenCiv

Millennials. Is there anything they DO know???

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/10/opinions/qatar-student-oma-seddiq-opinion/index.html

http://www.jakelahut.com/


6 posted on 10/08/2020 8:09:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: a fool in paradise; SeekAndFind

I just keep laughing at their idiotic headline and the first sentence of this BS fake news.

Could there possibly be MORE LIES, in that first sentence???


7 posted on 10/08/2020 8:09:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

Yeah, he’s tested at least once a day. Its been reported multiple times. Pay attention.


8 posted on 10/08/2020 8:11:10 PM PDT by gswilder
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s run with this.

Suppose he “tested positive” a time or two or more since May.

Each time his body was building an immune response...BULKING UP.

So when the intense dose was released—by accident or intention, I believe the latter—at the Rose Garden or at the Cleveland debate (again, I believe the latter) his immune system was ready for battle....more like a minor skirmish.

The moral of the tale: Exposure is GOOD.

Your immune system needs exercise just like your muscles.

Tear off that d@mn face diaper, breathe deeply, suck in some COVID, start bulking up and MANNING UP!


9 posted on 10/08/2020 8:11:46 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Revel

>>MY guess is that the dark side has been trying to expose him the Covid for some time.

Certainly worth investigating, the threat has been publicly made, and far Left extremists have used germ warfare against Republican presidential candidates prior to this.

https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/germ-warfare/Content?oid=3092
Germ Warfare
Dan Savage Goes Undercover to the Iowa Caucuses and Gives Gary Bauer the Flu Bug
by Dan Savage

...I’m the only new volunteer to walk through the door in quite some time, apparently, so campaign staffers don’t quite know what to do with me. Only after 10 or 15 minutes of asking around does Andy, a young Bauer staffer, direct me to the phones.

...Pretending you feel fine when you’ve got the flu is exhausting — and I have the flu in a big way. On my flight to Minneapolis, I felt this itch in the back of my throat. By the time I got to my hotel in Des Moines, all I could do was get undressed, crawl under the covers, and stay in bed for two days. On day three, still sick as a dog, I decide to get up and do my job. I’m relieved when the Bauer folks stick me in an out-of-the-way cubicle, where unobserved I can allow myself to look as miserable as I feel...

I catch Gary Bauer on MSNBC. “Our society will be destroyed if we say it’s okay for a man to marry a man or a woman to marry a woman,” he says. Seeing Bauer go off about gay marriage reminds me of something he said back in December, when the Vermont Supreme Court came out for same-sex marriage: “I think what the Vermont Supreme Court did last week was in some ways worse than terrorism.”

In my Sudafed-induced delirium, I decide that if it’s terrorism Bauer wants, it’s terrorism Bauer is going to get. Naked, feverish, and higher than a kite on codeine aspirin, I call the Bauer campaign and volunteer. My plan? Get close enough to Bauer to give him the flu, which, if I am successful, will lay him flat just before the New Hampshire primary. I’ll go to Bauer’s campaign office and cough on everything. Phones and pens. Staplers and staffers. I even hatch a plan to infect the candidate himself; I’ll keep a pen in my mouth until Bauer drops by his offices to rally the troops. And when he does, I’ll approach him and ask for his autograph, handing him the pen from my flu-virus-incubating mouth.

While I make calls, I overhear Bauer’s press secretary calling reporters and letting them know that Gary will be having a press conference at a cemetery at 3:30 p.m., at the grave of a fetus found in a ditch. Gary will give his usual complaint about the coarsening of our culture — standing on a child’s grave for emphasis. While I dial, my eyes drift over the pieces of paper pinned to the wall of my cubicle. A photocopied “thought for the day” catches my attention. “Remember, when someone annoys you,” the thought reads, “it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. But it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and SMACK THE &&&HOLE UPSIDE THE HEAD.” Hmmm. A little coarse, I think to myself, chewing my pen.

...I’ve got work to do.

I go around the room licking doorknobs. They are filthy, no doubt, but there isn’t time to find a rag to spit on. If for some reason I don’t manage to get a pen from my mouth to Gary’s hands at the conference, I want to seed his office with germs, get as many of his people sick as I can, and hopefully one of them will infect the candidate. I lick office doorknobs, bathroom doorknobs. When that’s done, I start on the staplers, phones, and computer keyboards. Then I stand in the kitchen and lick the rims of all the clean coffee cups drying in the rack. I grab my coat and head out...

...It’s freezing cold and windy. Waiting for Gary, I take my pen out of my pocket and put it in my mouth. This is it, my one shot at the candidate. I chew the pen, cracking the plastic shaft. Gary arrives, toddles up to the podium, and makes some brief remarks about Red China. As he steps away, I step toward him.

“This is my son,” I say, handing him a photograph. “Can I have your autograph?” Bauer gives me an odd look; I need to give him a little more. “I talked his mother out of aborting him. You’re my hero, Mr. Bauer.”

He looks at me with his little bug eyes, and breaks into a wide smile. “Good for you,” Gary says. “That’s wonderful.”

He takes the picture, and I pull the pen out of my mouth and hand it to him. Score! My bodily fluids — flu bugs and all — are all over his hand! When he tries to sign, no ink comes out. Gary looks up at the cameras and says, “Looks like everything is frozen.” He grabs a poster and scribbles on it to get the ink flowing, then signs the picture. He hands me my pen, and starts to walk toward his van. He stops to answer a reporter’s question, and I see him run a finger under his nose. Perfect.

I didn’t need to lick all those doorknobs after all.

https://www.salon.com/2000/01/29/savage_reaction/
The firestorm over “Stalking Gary Bauer”
Salon readers lash Dan Savage — or laugh with him.
SALON STAFF
JANUARY 29, 2000 10:00PM (UTC)

Last week Salon sent writer Dan Savage to Iowa to cover the presidential primary caucuses. While there, he came down with the flu. The story he filed — a feverish, compelling and disturbing account of how candidate Gary Bauer’s crusade against gays drove him to try to infect Bauer with his flu — was not what we had in mind.

Nevertheless, after reviewing the story carefully we decided to run it...


10 posted on 10/08/2020 8:13:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: SeekAndFind

Virus fragments can show up in the lamebrain testing for weeks.


11 posted on 10/08/2020 8:13:45 PM PDT by sitetest (No longer mostly dead.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As I recall, POTUS and multiple WH persons have frequently said they were all tested almost every day.


12 posted on 10/08/2020 8:13:57 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: Jane Long

I like how Trump is dying, and faking it at the same time.

Watching these people lose their minds is rather enjoyable.


13 posted on 10/08/2020 8:13:57 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: gswilder

You telling ME to pay attention???

Hopefully, you mean the dummies who wrote this piece of garbage.


14 posted on 10/08/2020 8:15:19 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Revel

RE: Remember that he was taking HCQ for a time.

Two weeks at most. That’s what I learned from my readings.


15 posted on 10/08/2020 8:15:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: EEGator

Our 75 year old POTUS beat the black death of the 21st century over a long weekend. Something doesn’t add up here.


16 posted on 10/08/2020 8:15:39 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

I sense a disturbance in the force.


17 posted on 10/08/2020 8:17:35 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind

Business Insider, the leftist version of Moscow’s “Doctors Daily Journal and Disinformation Campaign” magazine. /sarc


18 posted on 10/08/2020 8:18:46 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SeekAndFind

He should just virtually debate Biden on Oct 12, and then take the video of Biden’s clumsily obvious attempts to solicit help from unseen handlers and use it in campaign commercials in purpling swing states like Arizona.


19 posted on 10/08/2020 8:20:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: SeekAndFind
The last time Trump said he tested negative for COVID-19 was in May, and the White House refuses to say if he's tested negative since

The headline says the WH refuses to say if he's been tested since May.

"The president is tested regularly," a White House spokesman said in an email.

Yet the article, in the last paragraph quotes the WH as saying that "Trump is tested regularly".

The headline is a lie.

20 posted on 10/08/2020 8:23:28 PM PDT by FreeReign
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