PS/ Proof of Corruption—out 9/8, preorderable now—has the most comprehensive review of this bizarre November '19 episode ever published. And across hundreds of relevant major-media articles, the suspiciousness of Trump's military hospital visit only grows. https://read.macmillan.com/lp/proof-of-corruption/
PS2/ The most likely explanation for what happened in November has little to do with Trump's health—and much to do with when he was told hundreds of thousands would die from a virus if he didn't put aside his love of Xi Jinping's issuance of trademarks for the Trump Organization.
PS3/ So if there's one thing no American can do, it's say "I don't care" why Trump went to a military hospital in November 2019 under false pretenses, as he was suffering from a cold, and as the USIC was telling the White House a new cold/flu virus was about to become a pandemic.
PS4/ Not one expert—and I include high-profile Republican as well as Democratic doctors—has said that the White House's explanation of Trump's November '19 visit to Walter Reed makes any sense as a matter of medicine, protocol, or national security. I literally couldn't find one.
PS5/ And every component of the trip is inexplicable—from the failure to clear roads (suggesting an emergency) to the fact that Trump was forced to carry his own files with him into the waiting van (suggesting classified materials that could not be shared with lower-level aides).
PS6/ Trump has a history of lying about his health and getting doctors to lie for him. But even among all those lies, the White House would always have a doctor come out to brief media. This is the one time that didn't happen. Everything points to a national security explanation.
PS7/ Reports from ABC News, CNN, Business Insider, The Times of Israel and the South China Morning Post—as well as French medical reports and satellite surveillance from China—places the virus in China in late September 2019 and intel reports on it in the White House in November.
PS8/ I don't claim to have knowledge of what treatment Trump received—if any at all—at Walter Reed in November. We only know his blood was drawn, and that he had no reason whatsoever to be at that hospital at that time unless there was a national security reason attached to it.
PS9/ What I do discuss at length in Proof of Corruption is what Trump's medical condition was at the time he was rushed to Walter Reed on an emergency basis, what protocols were violated by the trip, and—most important—what information the White House had on the coronavirus then.
PS10/ If you asked me for an educated guess, I'd say Trump didn't get *any* treatment at Walter Reed in November. He just got his blood drawn and symptoms checked to see if he had the new virus the White House had just learned about. Hence "physical" is a convenient—workable—lie.
CONCLUSION/ I don't know that Trump's recent arm-shaking and unsteadiness on his feet has anything to do with November. What I *do* know is that the White House is lying about his health—was lying about it then, and is lying about it now—and America deserves the full truth *now*.
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