Former first lady Melania Trump has reason to pause: a new report implicates her in a White House coverup of Donald Trump‘s COVID-19 diagnosis.
The potential scandal has emerged just ahead of the release of The Chief’s Chief, a new memoir by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. The book has already made headlines for the bombshell revelation that Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 just days before his first debate with then-Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden. Trump, his family and his staffers all defied mask mandates when visiting the debate venue. Just days later, Trump was also hospitalized for the virus.
Now a new report from The Washington Post further implicates the Trump family–including Melania Trump and Donald Trump, Jr.–as aiding in the coverup.
“The Trump family has long treated rules and laws as nuisances that are only for the little people. And the news that Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 before the first 2020 presidential debate shows that this tendency may be even more depraved and malevolent than you thought,” Greg Sargent writes in The Washington Post. “It turns out that this revelation, which comes in a new book by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, also implicates members of Trump’s family, including Melania Trump and Donald Trump Jr.”
“That’s because multiple people around Trump, including his wife, Melania Trump, and his kids Donald Jr. and Eric, all sat maskless at the Sept. 29 debate, according to contemporaneous reports, despite the fact that debate attendees were required to wear masks,” Sargent further notes. “As numerous reporters personally witnessed at the time, Trump’s family members did this after rebuffing a direct request to mask up from a doctor with the Cleveland Clinic, which helped organize the debate. That doctor even offered them masks, and they declined.”
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According to Mark Meadows, Trump first tested positive for COVID-19 on September 26 following a Rose Garden “super spreader” event to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Coney Barret herself tested positive for COVID following the ceremony. Trump also, according to Meadows, began to show early signs of COVID infection, including fatigue and cold-like symptoms. Meadows ordered a confirmatory test with a different testing model known as the Binax system. Trump tested negative with that model and refused to take any precautionary measures thereafter, holding indoor press conferences and approaching supporters without a mask.
Meadows, however, instructed staff to treat Trump as if he had COVID.
The night of the debate itself, Meadows writes, Trump had even more serious signs of COVID infection. He also refused to take a COVID screening test prior to entering the venue. Nobody in the Trump family or in Trump’s staff had told the debate organizers about Trump’s earlier positive test. Three days later, Trump and Melania checked into the hospital for COVID-19 treatment.
Mack
Everything Trump does is for himself. He doesn’t care about anyone else. He believes he’s above the law and until his ass is in jail for something, he’ll continue to believe that.
ROTHERS
maybe share the cost to upkeep in the cartel areana
groinpull
And in your delusional world the wicked witch Hillary Clinton is an angel. Obviously you have a low intelligence level, maybe look up some facts of what President Trump did for all groups of this nation.
Ok there snowflake.
man5996853
@groinpull…Scientists should study your brain so that they can advise expectant mothers to abort fetuses that might have the same mental disease.
Bosch
@groinpull this is Queerty, not Qanon. I know reading is hard. And how fascinating that you can praise trump and call others stupid in the same breath. Life must be very strange when you lack awareness.
RTG
Groinpull – sweetie- didn’t your mommy tell you QAnon isn’t a real thing? Didn’t you see what happened to that man who drove ALL THE WAY to Washington DC to save the children in PIng Pong Pizza who were being sexually abused in the basement (never mind the place didn’t even HAVE a basement). Take your anti psychotic meds and go back to bed. You’re embarrassing yourself (again).
Fname Optional Lname
LOL! Sticking up for Trump is like sticking up for toe fungus. When “visitors” get so riled up that they feel the impulse to comment it only exposes the fact that they were here cruising! Someone tell groinpull to stop pulling so hard, it’s gonna chaffe and start to emit an odor.
roiboihoutx
I pray that Trump and his entire trifling, worthless, good for nothing, low life SCAVENGING, PARADISICAL waste of human sperm and eggs immediately catch any and every single deadly disease that will bury them and make them rot in the ground and burn forever and eternity in hell!
roiboihoutx
Ahhhhh! Oh my good and holy God! Really? Are there really gays on here that stick up for Donald Trump and that whole pathetic trashy white trash good for nothing low life scavenging parasitical family? Please tell me that I am in the Twilight zone right now and possibly in the depths of hell? There is no way that any educated human being with morals and common sense that would step up for the scum of the Earth known as The Trumpty Dumpties basically for Satan’s waste and sperm! Operation Wow! And the people talking about pizza gate and the Democrats, are basically the same Republicans that screw their own children and molest every kid inside because they seem the most obsessed with it!!!
Heywood Jablowme
It’s obvious that GOD was trying very hard to kill the entire Trump family and Amy Coney Barret by SMITING them with Covid, but they defied GOD’S PLAN!
groinpull
Maybe God should have smitten the Clinton’s for their involvement in pizza gate. Or are you just spewing what little you know about anything.
charlietex
@groinpull it is smited, not smitten. You really aren’t very smart. But hey when you get around to it, I’d love to get that list of all the thing Dump did for all people. What did he actually do to help gay people? Oh yeah, he rescinded protections for gay employees of federal contractors, pushed for religious exemptions to equal protection laws, and was just generally a stupid, lying, mean ahole.
Bosch
@groinpull literally an article about the Trump family being arrogant narcissists and creating a potentially dangerous situation with their infection, and all you can do is “but Hillary!”
It’s not just American democrats who think you’re stupid, it’s the whole civilized world.
Fahd
I’m not buying any Trump-people books, so if there are any juicy parts in these memoirs, the yahoo home page and Queerty will be my sources.
groinpull
What’s amazing here is all you snowflakes obviously have so much hatred towards President Trump, that you’ve overlooked everything he’s done and supported for the Gay community. Maybe take the time to look it up, unless you all lack the intelligence to do so.
leauxbeaux
Why don’t you go ahead and give us an idea of what he did for the LGBTQ+ “community.”
Derek Northcutt
Yes, such as how he abandoned his mentor/hero Roy Cohn to die of AIDS in hospital. To be fair though, Trump didn’t abandon him because he had AIDS, but because he would no longer be useful to him. What an admirable man, we understand why you defend him with lies about all he has done for our community. He’s a coward and a lout, and no sensible man would admire HIM.
kennyatw
What has Trump done for the gay community
Heywood Jablowme
The very LONG-term damage Trump did to us can’t be calculated yet. That won’t be known until Justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Coney Barret are dead, thirty or forty years from now.
Paulie P
Groinpull…. I may not have the intelligence you speak of but Im’ma gonna try:
President Trump opposed the Equality Act.
Trump has appointed anti-LGBTQ judges with alarming anti-LGBTQ records to appointments at every level of the judicial system, including anti-equality Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and federal nominees Kacsmaryk, Mateer, Bounds, Vitter. Menashi and others.
In 2017, Trump joked about Vice President Pence’s anti-gay agenda saying “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!”
The Trump administration submitted amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting discrimination against LGBTQ people.
Against the expert advice of military leadership, medical authorities, budget analysts, 70% of Americans and the armed forces of allied countries, Trump and Pence banned transgender people from serving in the military.
Trump’s Department of Justice upended previous DOJ interpretations of the Civil Rights Act that protect transgender and non-binary workers from employment discrimination and ceased enforcing non-discrimination protections as well as taking a hostile stance to LGBTQ workers in court.
Trump’s Department of Labor issued a regulation designed to allow federal contractors to claim a religious exemption to fire LGBTQ workers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Hey I may have the intelligence I didn’t think I had.
My2CentsWorth
Groinpull, get it right. Ex-president Trump.
charlietex
Anybody who tells someone else to go look it up is just bluffing because he doesn’t have the answer himself.
Bosch
@groinpull what kind of grown man calls others “snowflakes”? Go back to 4chan or 9gag or whatever.
RTG
I literally spit out my coffee laughing when I read your comment. Please get professional help (as in a cult deprogrammer). You’re beyond the capabilities of normal mental health professionals.
Mr. Stadnick
Dude are you on acid? What good things did he or any member of his crime syndicate family do?
leauxbeaux
Methinks groinpull’s adductor longus be too short and he pulled it while performing self-anilingus.
joverit
I feel sorry for Covid!
scotty
she’s too stupid to know anything. even worse than eric. jeez.
CNY1983
Groinpull….nice try ERIC!!!!!
Cam
The weird thing is also, all the obvious lying about Melania’s skills by FOX News and other conservatives. They were SCREAMING that Melania spoke 5 languages. When they are that adamant about something that nobody was arguing with them about, you know that they know they are lying.
But other media just let it go. Melania gets caught plagiarizing Michelle Obama’s speech after saying on camera that she wrote it all by herself. Instead of calling her out, media then reports that the speech was written by some Trump staffer nobody has ever heard of. Ok, then why not ask Melania why she claimed to write it all by herself?
Why not ask her WHICH 5 languages she spoke, or ask why she never used them when they took trips to Europe? Etc…
The free ride given to Melania was beyond ridiculous.
RTG
Cam- Michelle Obama wore a sleeveless dress and was called a whore. Melania did nude lesbian photo shoots and the Republicans called it art. Nothing new……Whether it’s the emperor or empress, no one is allowed to point out they are wearing no clothes……
Bosch
What? Michelle Obama showed her shoulders? In PUBLIC??
*faint*
Heywood Jablowme
The five languages are:
– Slovenian
– Belch (spoken in Belgium; Donald is fluent in it too!)
– COBOL (batteries not included)
– Java ” ” ”
– Unix ” ” ”
And, like Howard Wolowitz, six if you count Klingon!
LMG
Poor groinpull. He still doesn’t realize that that’s where his brain is located – right near his groin and next to his prostate. And that’s why he gets terrible headaches every time he walks, lifts something, pees, or takes a Trump – whoops, I mean a “dump”. He needs a new moniker – try a-hole!