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4 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Wow. Conley just admitted that HE ordered and administered supplemental oxygen for Trump on Friday morning, after strongly implying the opposite yesterday.
Also Conley: "Over the course of his illness the president has experienced two transient drops in his oxygen saturation." He didn't expand on this, but the logical inference is that he had another episode in the last 24 hours.
Yep. Conley just confirmed, in response to the first question from reporters, that Trump's oxygen dropped again yesterday. Asked if he got more oxygen, Conley says "I'd have to check with the nursing staff."
Asked if Trump's oxygenation ever dropped below 90%, Conley says "it was below 94%. But never down to the low eighties or anything like that." So ... yes.
Multiple times today and yesterday Conley was asked about the condition of Trump's lungs. He refused to give specifics each time.

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Angus Johnston Profile picture
4 Oct
Less than 48 hours into being hospitalized with a life-threatening airborne disease, Trump staged a photo op that required a subordinate to drive him around in a car with the windows closed.
At least two people were in the car with Trump, neither one of them six feet away from him. So much for "going to school" on the disease.
Just yesterday morning Trump was, according to his intimates, freaking out at the prospect that Covid was going to kill him. Now he's choosing to expose others to the disease for no reason other than his own self-aggrandizement.
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4 Oct
I had a covid scare in April—no real cause to worry, in retrospect, but alarming given what was known at the time—and the idea that I might die in the next few weeks was terrifying. I don't think it's weird or a sign of weakness that Trump is (by various accounts) freaking out.
And if Trump IS freaking out, I can understand why his doctor would feel it was a legitimate medical decision to present a brave face to the public, even at the expense of the truth.
At the same time, though, all of that is fundamentally incompatible with the public's legitimate expectations of how his doctor should be behaving—and, as we're seeing, basically unsustainable in practice.
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4 Oct
This struck me at the time, and strikes me again upon re-reading, as a statement that telling the public the truth about Trump's condition could cause his condition to deteriorate further.
Which may be a legitimate decision to make. But if so, it suggests that Trump's condition is dire enough that if his doctors tell the public the truth about it, the medical consequences could be catastrophic.
And I guess that in turn raises a question: Are his doctors lying to him, and worried that he'll find out what they know? Or is it that they're worried he'll decompensate in response to ... what? The humiliation of having everyone find out how sick he is?
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3 Oct
One thing that leaps out: Conley's "72 hours since diagnosis" puts the diagnosis within about 12 hours after the debate. If he knew (or suspected) he had the virus any earlier than that, then he knowingly put Biden at risk on the debate stage.
And yeah, even in this Nothing Matters timeline, a Covid-infected president exposing his 78-year-old possible successor to the disease barely a month before the election strikes me as an escalation of the present scandal.
I'm not claiming anything. But a lot of stuff that's in the public record makes a lot more sense if Trump was already sick on Tuesday, and there are a lot of reasons to fudge the timeline to make that go away.
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3 Oct
The president's doctor was just asked, twice, whether Trump has received any supplemental oxygen during his illness. He replied that he isn't on oxygen now, then said he hasn't gotten any today. So apparently he was on oxygen yesterday.
The doctor also just said that Trump has been fever-free since yesterday, but refused to answer how high his fever was before.
"Yesterday and today he was not on oxygen."
"So he was not on oxygen during his Covid treatment?"
"He's not on oxygen right now."
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3 Oct
First GOP senator to test positive for covid who isn't on the Judiciary Committee, so quarantining isn't going to be an issue for moving the Barrett nomination forward here. But if any of these senators start getting seriously ill...
(There are shenanigans the GOP can pull to get Barrett through the Judiciary Committee even if some senators are quarantining. But if they want a full vote before Election Day, they need their people up and around and on the floor of the senate by then.)
And of course with three Republican senators announcing positive test results in less than 24 hours, there's no reason to assume that's the end of the list.
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