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Into America

Into the President's Health and the Public Trust

Into America

Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

President Trump isn’t the first sitting president to become ill while in office. Here’s what history can teach us about what should happen when the President gets sick.

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0:00.0

Good evening. We begin with a breaking news, the unprecedented health crisis unfolding

0:08.8

at this hour in America's highest office.

0:11.5

2020 shows no signs of letting up. Last week, after months of downplaying the seriousness

0:17.4

of coronavirus and resisting precautionary measures like mass and social distancing, President

0:23.0

Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19.

0:25.9

The White House originally described his symptoms as, quote, mild, but on Friday, with

0:41.4

an 18 hours of announcing his diagnosis, the president was on the Marine One helicopter

0:46.2

bound for the presidential suite of Water Read National Military Medical Center in Bethesda,

0:50.8

Maryland.

0:51.8

Trump's doctors and aides gave conflicting reports on his condition all weekend long,

1:12.0

and there is still uncertainty about when the president contracted coronavirus.

1:16.3

The White House says his first positive test was after returning from a fundraiser in New

1:20.4

Jersey on Thursday night, but refused to say whether the president was tested before Tuesday's

1:25.8

debate in Cleveland.

1:27.2

Yeah, I'm not going to give you a detailed readout with timestamps that every time the

1:30.6

president's tested, he tested regularly, and the first positive test he received was after

1:35.3

his return from Bedminster.

1:37.2

That's White House press secretary Kaylee McEnany on Sunday. By the way, she announced earlier

1:42.5

today she is also positive for coronavirus.

1:46.3

Throughout the ordeal, the president has continued to communicate with the American public through

1:50.7

Twitter and video messages.

1:52.3

I feel much better now.

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