Trump denies suffering 'mini-strokes,' claims Pence was not put on presidential 'standby,' hits at CNN

Sep 01, 2020
A new book is reviving long-unanswered questions about President Trump's visit to Walter Reed military hospital last November, and Trump and his White House physician are issuing very specific denials.
"In reporting for this book, I learned that in the hours leading up to Trump's trip to the hospital, word went out in the West Wing for the vice president to be on standby to take over the powers of the presidency temporarily if Trump had to undergo a procedure that would have required him to be anesthetized," New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt writes in Donald Trump v.
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