Trump Calls Mark Meadows' New Book Fake News, And Meadows Agrees With Him!

During an interview with Newsmax this week, former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was asked about the former President calling his book "fake news," to which Meadows astonishingly agreed with him. Meadows claims that HIS claims are being taken out of context about Trump's positive COVID test prior to the debate, and that it was a false positive (with two negative tests confirming this.) The odds of getting a false positive then a real positive just days later are incredibly distant, but that's the story Meadows is going with, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows has a new book coming out next week. It's called the chiefs chief. We've seen a lot of information released this week about the book. Meadows has been out there doing interviews. Of course, one of the biggest pieces of information the book said was that Donald Trump actually received a positive diagnosis for COVID-19 days before that first presidential debate. He had met with Gold Star Families after receiving this positive diagnosis. So Meadows went on Newsmax this week, where they asked him like, hey, you know, Donald Trump says this is fake news, says, what is in your book is fake news. How would you like to respond to that? So Meadows says, well, the president's right. It's fake news.

So on the surface immediately after saying that it would appear that Meadows is out there agreeing that, yeah, I mean, my book's totally fake. Don't worry about it. It's just, I made up a bunch of crap. When somebody asks you if the thing you're using to make money is a fraud, you should never respond, like, yeah, it's a fraud. Uh, probably not going to bode too well for you, Meadows. But Meadows did continue and he explained it's fake news in the sense that everybody's taking it out of context, because as Meadows claims, Trump did in fact get that positive diagnosis. But then he took two other tests that were negative. So, you know, he didn't have COVID because it was a false positive rather than a false negative. So they looked at the competing tests and said, which one would benefit us more? Well, obviously being negative would, so let's just pretend the, the positive one is fake and the false ones are totally accurate.

So the odds of an individual testing positive for COVID, but getting a false positive and then a couple of days later, testing positive with a real positive, that's astronomical. I'm not saying it can't happen. I'm sure it has happened. The odds of it though make it a far less likely to have happened. Trump could have been in the early stages of COVID where it was difficult to detect it. Maybe the first test was able to, you know, get whatever it is they look for on the nasal swabs. Whereas the other two that may have been done immediately after. He already swapped it all out. I don't know. I don't know how all that works. But if there were, if the virus was just new to his body and was just beginning to replicate, then yes, it would be easy to do a swab or two where you don't get any evidence that the virus is there, especially if you had already swabbed. So there's that. That's why the two false pos, false negatives seem more likely than a false positive, especially because again, several days after that he was positive.

And of course the book talks about the guy was symptomatic. Thought it was a mild cold. So stop with this nonsense of like, oh, well I mean, Trump's right. Trump's right. My books fake. Well, there you have it though, folks, from the horse's mouth. Mark Meadows agrees that his book is fake news. So don't waste any money on it. That, that is what I encourage people to do. Don't buy that for people as a Christmas gift. As I predicted a couple days ago, this book is not going to be an anti Donald Trump book.