He just can’t get enough. President Donald Trump has released another Tweet claiming that he never had a series of mini-strokes, or that Mike Pence was ever put on stand-by in case Trump was incapable of governing.
Mike Pence was never put on standby, & there were no mini-strokes. This is just more Fake News by @CNN, a phony story. The reason for the visit to Walter Reed, together with the full press pool, was to complete my yearly physical. Short visit, then returned (with press) to W.H… https://t.co/GUVdbJRvqD
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 2, 2020
Trump, however, gets details of his cover story wrong. When he was hustled over to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda in November 2019, the White House story was that–in the middle of the day, with his White House physician at his side–he was rushed over to Walter Reed to *start* his annual physical that wasn’t completed until at least February 2020.