Joe Biden wants to run for reelection as president
Former United States President
Donald Trump
tested positive for COVID-19 and then negative, three days before the debate with Democrat
Joe Biden
on September 29, 2020, according to an excerpt from his former chief of staff's book, obtained by the newspaper
The Guardian
and that the republican tycoon denies.
Mark Meadows argues in the book
The Chief's Chief
to be published next week that
"nothing was going to stop Trump" from debating
his Democratic opponent in the 2020 presidential election, which Biden won in a highly contested election. by his rival.
The last chief of staff of the former president assures that Trump presented at the time of the positive test, carried out on September 26, 2020, signs of fatigue and
symptoms of a "mild cold."
Mark Meadows claims to have warned Trump that the test came back positive when the latter was aboard Air Force One, en route to a campaign rally, according to
The Guardian.
He maintains that after the first test, carried out with an "old model", a second was carried out with a more recent system and considered "much more precise", the "Binax".
This time the result was negative.
This was considered by Trump as
"total permission" to continue with his agenda.
A week after the event, Trump was in the hospital.
On October 2, he announced on his Twitter account that he and his wife Melania had tested positive for COVID-19.
On Wednesday, however, the Republican billionaire maintained that Meadows' claims are false.
"The story that he had the covid before, or during, the first debate,
are 'fake news'
. In fact, a test showed that he did not have covid before the debate," he stressed.
Mark Meadows, a former Republican congressman, fully supported Trump in his harsh criticism of the election results, after which the violent invasion of the US Congress - the Capitol - took place on January 6.
After resisting for weeks, on Tuesday
Meadows agreed to testify before the House committee
investigating that coup.
The committee wants to know if Trump and those around him, including Meadows, were in alignment with the crowd of Republican supporters who invaded the Capitol and temporarily blocked congressmen from validating Biden's victory.
Meadows remained on the back burner during his time at the White House, but the investigation and his book have put him in the limelight.
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