Biden declines comment on report Trump tested positive for COVID days before debate

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Pres. Biden declines comment on report Trump tested positive for COVID days before debate, telling marykbruce: 'I don't think about the former president.'

In this emergency podcast, the team reacts to the news that President Trump tested positive for COVID-19.President Joe Biden on Wednesday declined to comment on the claim former President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows makes in an upcoming book, according to the, that Trump had a positive COVID-19 test three days before their first presidential debate.

Later, White House press secretary Jen Psaki took a different tone -- slamming Republicans and Trump allies she said had appeared to withhold the positive test result. She said the White House did not know about Meadows' claim prior to the story breaking in The Guardian. But Trump, then 74, was determined to go to the debate and face Biden, regardless, according to the account.Democratic Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump take part in the first presidential debate at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Sept. 29, 2020.

At least 11 guests, including press secretary Kellyanne Conway, former New Jersey GOP Gov. Chris Christie, Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, and University of Notre Dame President John Jenkins, tested positive afterward.Meadows called Trump, who was on Air Force One at the time, with news of the positive test before calling back that he tested negative after another screening.

"Some people say you first got -- you got an initial positive test even before the debate. Is that true or is that not true?" Karl asked Trump in a March 18 interview at Mar-a-Lago for his new book,"Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show."President Donald Trump wears a protective mask while giving a thumbs up as he is driven in a motorcade past supporters outside of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Oct. 4, 2020.

 

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