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– Looked at illness as “unforgivable weakness”

The US presidential election is fast approaching and apparently President Donald Trump is very keen to show voters and supporters that he is well and still working, despite being hospitalized.

On Friday morning Norwegian time, the president confirmed that he and First Lady Melania had tested positive for covid-19, and the same evening he was admitted to Walter Reed Military Hospital.

Until now, the president’s niece, Mary Trump, has remained silent about the admission. This summer she made a number of headlines when she wrote the book “Too much and never enough. How my family created the world’s most dangerous man ».

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“Unacceptable”

In a new interview with NPR, Niesa claims that members of the Trump family have viewed illness as “showing unforgivable weakness.” She says that illness was allegedly seen as “unacceptable” by Donald Trump and his father Fred.

“This is why the United States is in the terrible place we are, because he can not admit the weakness of being sick or of other people being sick,” claims Mary Trump.

The United States is hard hit by the coronavirus, with over seven million infected and over 200,000 deaths linked to the virus. The president and the administration have received a lot of criticism for their handling of the crisis.

Mary Trump says that her grandfather, Fred senior, was “never” ill, until later in life he suffered from Alzheimer’s.

“Between that and my grandfather’s dedication to Norman Vincent Peales’ ‘the power of positive thinking’, he took it to such an extreme level that it was toxic, because it did not allow for the expression of what he considered negativity of any kind, she says and mentions sadness, despair and being physically ill.

She claims that Fred senior did not “tolerate” that his wife, who suffered from osteoporosis, showed that she was in pain if, for example, she received treatment at home.

– He wanted to say “everything is fine, everything is fine” and leave the room, she claims, and adds that it was worse with her father, who was an alcoholic and died in the 80s.

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– Child abuse

Mary Trump has also mentioned her grandmother’s illness in the book, where she has also claimed that Trump was subjected to child abuse.

– Child abuse is, to some extent, a question of “too much” or “not enough”. Donald’s mother became ill when he was two and a half. It suddenly deprived him of his most important source of comfort and human contact. His father, Fred, became the only available parent. But Fred strongly believed that it was not his job to handle young children and continued his “twelve-hour-a-day-six-days-a-week” job in Trump Management, as if his children could take care of themselves, writes Mary Trump in the excerpt on the back of the book.

She believes the children were neglected by the father.

Prior to the release, the publisher described how Mary Trump uses her background as a psychologist to dissect “a nightmare of trauma, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse” and the “strange and harmful relationship” between her late father, Fred junior, and Donald Trump.

Her second uncle, Robert Trump, tried to stop in court. But in the end a court in New York ruled that the niece could publish the book.

– In good recovery

It is not yet clear when Trump can be discharged from Walter Reed Hospital outside Washington, but doctors said Sunday that his condition has improved and that he may be able to return to the White House on Monday, which has all the medical equipment he needs.

– The president’s condition has continued to improve. As with all diseases, it is often up and down, said his doctor Sean Conley.

Just a few hours earlier, Trump’s doctors had said that the oxygen saturation in his blood had dropped sharply twice in recent days, and that they were giving him a steroid treatment that is normally only recommended for very ill patients.

Conley said that oxygen saturation, which should normally be between 95 and 100 percent, was down to 93 percent while he had a high fever, once on Friday, and once until Saturday.

The doctors would not say anything about whether there are any signs of pneumonia or other damage to the lungs.

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Credibility issue

Conley’s statements were in clear contrast to the optimistic picture he was trying to paint of the situation on Saturday.

It has thus been two days of confusing and conflicting reports about the president’s health from the White House, which already has a credibility problem, which casts doubt on whether Trump’s doctors give the public a correct picture of the seriousness of the condition.

When journalists confronted Conley with the conflicting information, he admitted that he had tried to give a rosy picture of the situation that reflected the doctors’ optimism.

He admitted that it could then look like they were trying to hide something, something he said was not the case.

This spring, long before the president was infected, Conley is said to have told colleagues that he felt intense, personal pressure at work as the president’s doctor, according to Washington Post.

Furthermore, the newspaper writes that someone who has worked with Conley believes that the statements he has given seem to be dictated by politics.

– Every statement he makes seems to be political, dictated by the White House or the president. These are not statements made by a doctor, says an anonymous source.

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