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Did Trump test negative for Covid-19 before prez debate? Press secy Kayleigh McEnany refuses to share details

'I'm not going to give you a detailed readout with time stamps every time he is tested. He is tested regularly and the first positive test he received was after his return from Bedminster'

On Sunday, October 4, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany refused to confirm if President Donald Trump received a coronavirus test before last week’s first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, September 29, or before a fundraiser at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, last Thursday.

This comes after Trump announced in the early hours on Friday, October 2, that he and First Lady Melania Trump had contracted the virus after the POTUS' senior counselor Hope Hicks tested positive. “I'm not going to give you a detailed readout with time stamps every time he is tested,” she said. “He is tested regularly and the first positive test he received was after his return from Bedminster."

This led Vox journalist Aaron Rupar to wonder if the president really did get frequently tested for the virus as had been claimed by White House officials in the past. "The only plausible reason I can come up with for the White House refusing to disclose when Trump’s last negative test occurred is that he was tested far less frequently than they led us to believe," Rupar tweeted.

Soon many people started wondering along the same lines as Rupar, including behavioral scientist Andrea Kuszewski. "And he was probably experiencing mild symptoms before the debate, but refused to be tested because he was worried it would come back positive. He needed to claim ignorance, no data trail. The 'arriving too late to take a Covid test' before the debate in Cleveland is just waaaaaay to coincidental and convenient. He knew he was sick. If you re-watch the debate, you can tell he was ‘off’ and full of misplaced rage," she wrote in response to Rupar's post, alluding to the claim made by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace who moderated the first presidential debate that Trump did not arrive in Cleveland in time to get tested prior to his face-off with Democratic opponent Joe Biden.

We previously reported that While speaking to his colleague Bill Hemmer, Wallace said, "The difference was I arrived on Sunday, you arrived on Monday." "[The Trump family] didn’t arrive until Tuesday afternoon. So for them to get tested, there wouldn’t have been enough time to have the test and have the debate at 9.00 that night. They didn’t show up until 3.00, 4.00, 5.00 in the afternoon. There was an honor system when it came to the people that came into the hall from the two campaigns," Wallace added.

Democratic strategist Greg Pinelo said, "If the big reveal is that Trump's not tested very often, that's a best-case scenario. The far more sinister possibility is that Trump HAS been tested frequently and knew he was positive far sooner, i.e. he debated knowing he was sick. With him, it's usually the sinister thing."

Another user slammed the POTUS for unnecessarily putting the lives of the Secret Service in danger by going for a drive-by near the Walter Reed hospital, where he is currently admitted after being diagnosed with Covid-19, to greet his fans who had gathered outside. "I'm going to guess (after today's shit show where he HAD to go out for a car ride and some adulation) that he didn't want to be tested, so he just wasn't. He probably didn't get tested until he started to show significant symptoms or after Hope Hicks was confirmed to be sick," the user wrote.