Trump and Covid-19: The health of the president and the constitution
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The Times
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🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
What do we know about the experimental treatment President Trump was given? And although he isn't the first president to fall ill in office, have the past week's events challenged the usual norms around the president's health?
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Guests:
David Charter, US editor, The Times.
Dr Bob Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and co-author of A Reader's Guide To The 25th Amendment.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | I perhaps you recognize me it's your favorite president and I'm standing in front of the Oval |
| 0:14.7 | Office at the White House which is always an exciting place to be. |
| 0:19.5 | After a roller coaster week of rushed hospital admissions and grave concerns about the President's health, |
| 0:26.0 | Donald Trump took to Twitter in a return to form, turning the White House into a reality TV set. |
| 0:34.0 | I went in, I wasn't feeling so hot, |
| 0:37.0 | and within a very short period of time, they gave me Regeneron. |
| 0:40.0 | It's a cure. |
| 0:41.0 | For me, I walked in, I didn't feel good. A short 24 hours later I was feeling great. I went to get out of the hospital |
| 0:48.8 | Standing on the lawn outside the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon and looking noticeably more tanned |
| 0:55.6 | President Trump held the experimental treatment he'd undergone as a |
| 1:00.6 | miraculous cure. So I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it. |
| 1:06.0 | This was a blessing in disguise. |
| 1:08.0 | I caught it. |
| 1:10.0 | I heard about this drug. |
| 1:11.0 | I said, let me take it. It was my suggestion. I said said let me take it it was my suggestion I said let me take it |
| 1:16.0 | and it was incredible the way it worked incredible |
| 1:19.6 | but how sick is the president? Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi made it clear that the Democrats |
| 1:26.2 | don't believe he's fit for office. |
| 1:29.2 | Tomorrow, by the way, tomorrow, come here tomorrow. we're going to be talking about the 25th Amendment. |
| 1:36.7 | Is today the day to talk about the 25th amendment? |
| 1:43.6 | Should the Vice President be stepping up? |
| 1:46.1 | You're listening to stories of our times |
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