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Donald Trump returns to campaign meetings on Saturday, October 10 by organizing a rally on the White House lawn. Already transformed into a political arena during the Republican convention, the seat of the American executive power will welcome the faithful of the president as part of a “ peaceful demonstration for law and order ยป, According to the official agenda communicated by the presidency, once again confirming the total confusion between the Head of State and the candidate on the campaign trail. Two thousand invitations would have been distributed.
The rally is all the more surprising as the White House became a hotbed of infection after the ceremony held in its rose garden on September 26, during which dozens of guests applauded the announcement of the choice of the conservative judge. Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court.
Saturday’s rally comes just nine days after the president tested positive for Covid-19 and hospitalized in the elite military establishment of Walter-Reed, while information relating to his health remains fragmented. The White House doctor has not appeared before the press since October 5. Since then, he has contented himself with brief press releases summarizing the progress of the president’s convalescence. The White House has always refused to give the date of Donald Trump’s last negative test before his contamination, valuable information that could have allowed the disease to be traced.
The president also plans to hold a rally in Florida on Monday, October 12 in Sanford, north of Orlando. This will be his first since the one organized in Minnesota which preceded his contamination. The state’s health department on Friday identified nine cases of coronavirus in people who said they attended the rally. One of them was placed in an intensive care unit. The link between attendance at the meeting and contamination is currently only a hypothesis.
The president’s desire to resume his campaign activities despite the proximity of his hospitalization can be explained by the schedule. When he speaks in Florida, only three weeks will separate him from the November 3 election as he is left behind by his Democratic opponent Joe Biden at the national level, purely indicative, as in some of the key states in which he is will play the presidential election.
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