Thread by @chrisgeidner

So, it’s really starting to look like the hope was that the circle of who tested positive stayed small, Trump’s condition didn’t worsen, and they could get away with putting out Hope’s positive test to set up a scenario where they could later announce Trump’s positive test.

Am I missing something?

If that’s so, this was a ghastly, irresponsible, potentially deadly series of events orchestrated by the White House that put many at risk. And it all fell apart b/c the virus is a virus, not a political operative, and many people tested positive and Trump’s condition worsened.

Here’s my earlier thread out of the presser:

This attempted walkback, which requires multiple doctors to have gotten the timeline wrong in the same way, is ridiculous. See @nycsouthpaw’s thread here —>

If what the doctors were saying was that wrong, why didn’t Meadows stop them immediately or at least clean it up in his gaggle with the reporters after? He didn’t say a word about any of that!

Like, even if the doctors (all) explained the timeline incorrectly, that means the doctors treating the president can’t keep the timeline of his illness and treatment straight. Bad! And they did so in a presser where they confused other things and refused to answer still others.

In addition to the Trump White House’s constant lies, there also is much longer history of the White House lying about presidential illness and disability (see buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…) — both of which counsel extreme skepticism of uncorroborated statements about Trump’s health.

So irresponsible for @Reuters to run this as a complete, at-face-value story, with NO mention of Meadows’s own statement from earlier, which he attempted to push out on background but was outed, in part, because he was caught on camera giving it. reuters.com/article/us-hea…