Confusion about Trump’s COVID-19 infection fits a long pattern of skimpy info about presidential health
The mistruths, distortions, and whipsawing information that have characterized much of the Trump administration’s public disclosures do not bode well for absolute transparency about the president’s health, bioethicists and historians say.

The confusing explanations and limited disclosure so far about President Trump’s condition — underscored by a less-than-candid press conference Saturday morning by his physician — is part of a long, bipartisan history of purposeful obfuscation about the state of a president’s health.

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