Mark Meadows Talks Trump with COVID: “We’re in Trouble!”

It volition not astonishment anyone that Trump’s ever-present fearfulness of looking “weak” (While perpetually whining that he’s the world’s biggest victim), kept him from seeking existent aesculapian attraction earlier successful the people of his bout with COVID, demonstrating erstwhile again that Trump couldn’t attraction little that helium enactment the state into a “who’s successful charge?” chaotic position.

If determination was ever a clip that terrorists (of immoderate type) mightiness person considered a speedy attack, it might’ve been the time Trump announced his affirmative test, knowing the White House’s signifier for evasion and understatement.

In a revealing interview with NTY newsman Maggie Haberman, Meadows describes White House doc Sean Conley telling Meadows earlier successful the day, Friday, October 2nd, 2020, however rapidly Trump was deteriorating. Trump had lone announced investigating affirmative astatine 1:00 a.m. that greeting and yet had been sick for days. But helium rapidly deteriorated Friday and yet still, lone cared astir looking “weak,” which seems to beryllium the biggest incorrect 1 tin perpetrate connected this planet, successful Trump’s mind.

Dr. Conley told Meadows that the White House didn’t person the resources they would request if Trump kept trending down (we laymen mightiness speculate that Conley is referring to a ventilator due to the fact that Trump was connected oxygen successful the White House). Meadows disquieted astir telling Trump that they were moving retired of choices. From the NYT:

He described walking into Mr. Trump’s backstage residence to spot him successful a T-shirt, sitting up successful bed. “It was the archetypal clip I had seen him successful thing different than a play garment oregon a suit jacket,” Mr. Meadows wrote. The president, helium said, was making telephone calls and trying to work.

“If it hadn’t been for the oxygen vessel by his side, I mightiness person forgotten helium was sick astatine all,” Mr. Meadows wrote. But his attraction snapped backmost to Mr. Trump’s appearance: “I remembered what Dr. Conley had said. We were successful trouble, and the president needed to get to the hospital.”

Given Trump’s absorption astatine the time, 1 wonders whether the “work” Meadows references was run work. This was 1 period anterior to the election.

Trump’s eyes were reddish and his hairsbreadth was a mess. But it took telling Trump that it would beryllium amended for him to locomotion to the chopper that time than being carried successful a gurney sometime successful the adjacent 2 days.

It had antecedently been reported that Trump dropped his briefcase upon entering Walter Reed, Meadows says it happened successful the White House, too:

Mr. Trump relented. On the locomotion retired to his helicopter, helium had mislaid truthful overmuch spot that helium dropped a briefcase helium had planned to transportation outside, wherever reporters were lined up to observe him, Mr. Meadows recalled.

The interrogation besides reveals the secrecy that Meadows utilized to alert monoclonal antibodies from Florida successful a backstage jet. At the clip the antibodies were not an approved treatment.

Nothing successful the interrogation volition daze anyone utilized to speechmaking astir Trump’s obsession with lone appearing “strong” and his deficiency of attraction implicit the problems his unwellness could person caused. As mentioned above, anyone, anyplace successful the world, could easy person counted upon the information that the White House was vastly understating Trump’s information and if that radical wanted to bash thing to onslaught the United States oregon an ally, this would beryllium the 24 hr play to bash it.

Certainly, nary 1 contemplating an onslaught would interest excessively overmuch whether Trump would person a hard clip utilizing his “judgment,” which was 1 of Trump’s top weaknesses. The radical would beryllium counting upon a usually chaotic White House being adjacent much chaotic than usual, and determination could easy beryllium a: “Who is truly successful complaint situation? Was it the feline who mightiness request a ventilator oregon the vice-president, oregon possibly conscionable Meadows, due to the fact that of Trump’s

The interrogation conscionable sheds further airy connected however Trump’s vanity and self-obsessed quality could person enactment the state and the satellite into accrued danger.