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Trump’s Physician Continues to Mislead

October 4, 2020 at 12:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Dr. Sean Conley was asked at a press briefing this morning why he was so misleading on Saturday and replied he was trying to reflect the team’s “upbeat attitude” and didn’t want to “steer the course of illness in another direction,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

He added: “In doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn’t necessarily true.”

Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN said doctors at Walter Reed are throwing “the kitchen sink” at Trump, feeding him three different “serious” medications, one of which is experimental in nature.

He suggests this is far more serious than what Conley is letting on.

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