Thread by @DrEricDing

EXPLOSIVE—We now learn Trump had tested positive for #COVID19 **3 days** before his first debate against Joe Biden, says former chief of staff Mark Meadows—positive test on Sept 26th, same day as this WH’s infamous superspreading SCOTUS nominating event:👇
theguardian.com/us-news/2021/d…

2) The list of infected that day at the WH were long…. But now Trump maybe could have been possibly the INDEX case?

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1313187729161756673

3) Meadows says the positive test had been done with an old model kit. He told Trump the test would be repeated with “the Binax system, and that we were hoping the first test was a false positive”.

4) After “a brief but tense wait”, Meadows called back with news of the negative test. He could “almost hear the collective ‘Thank God’ that echoed through the cabin”, he writes.

➡️ TRUMP DID NOT PCR CONFIRM!!! 😮

5) Meadows says Trump took that call as “full permission to press on as if nothing had happened”. His chief of staff, however, “instructed everyone in his immediate circle to treat him as if he was positive” throughout the Pennsylvania trip.

6) “I didn’t want to take any unnecessary risks,” Meadows writes, “but I also didn’t want to alarm the public if there was nothing to worry about – which according to the new, much more accurate test, there was not.”

7) Meadows writes that audience members at the (Middletown, PA) rally “would never have known that anything was amiss”.
The public, however, was not told of the president’s tests.

(Middletown PA is Harrisburg area— near my childhood home—this reckless endangerment is personal!)

8) On 27 September, the first day between the tests and the debate, Meadows says Trump did little – except playing golf in Virginia and staging an event for military families. Trump later said he might have been infected at that event— THAT SEEMS DUBIOUS NOW 👀

9) IRONY IS DEAD… “Somewhat ironically, considering his circumstances”, Meadows writes, Trump spoke about a new testing strategy “supposed to give quicker, more accurate readings about whether someone was positive or not.” 🤦🏻‍♂️

10) The White House had still not told the public Trump tested positive and then negative two days before.
On debate day, 29 September, Meadows says, Trump looked slightly better – “emphasis on the word slightly”.

11) The host, Chris Wallace of Fox News, later said Trump was not tested before the debate because he arrived late. Organizers relied on the honor system. 🤦🏻‍♂️

➡️The White House had not said Trump had tested positive and negative three days before.

10) NOW WE KNOW WHY— Dr. Sean Conley was very cagey last year and refused to disclose when Trump had his last negative COVID test: "I don't want to go backwards."

HT @therecount

13) If only the Trump WH followed the science. This #GivingTuesday , support science policy. Support global security. Support @FAScientists. fas.org/donate/

14) the sheer gall to mock Biden for wearing a mask whenever he was recently COVID positive and then refused a test before the debate.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1466046988500230146

15) Reckless endangerment? Is it a crime to get someone else sick? Yes.

nolo.com/legal-encyclop…

16) Remember when Trump WH **quietly.** told a group of veterans that they may have been exposed to #COVID19? Well, now we know the person who exposed them.

Old piece by @ErinBanco @samstein @attackerman @swin24
thedailybeast.com/white-house-qu…