Trump to hold campaign rally in Florida on Saturday

Trump in a video message said that him contracting COVID-19 was a ‘blessing’

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President Donald Trump, who is still recovering from COVID-19, said to Fox News on Thursday that he wants to hold a campaign rally as early as Saturday, likely in Florida. Trump also said he was likely to hold a rally in Pennsylvania the next day. 

“I feel so good,” he said after his doctor gave him the green light to resume public activities this weekend. The president, who returned to the White House on Monday, despite CDC guidelines to isolate, said in a video message from the White House, that him catching the coronavirus was a blessing in disguise. He said this helped him to experience first-hand how medication from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals could be effective. He also said, “I want to get for you what I got. And I’m going to make it free.”

Trump is expected to take another COVID-19 test on Friday, a week after he flew to Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre for three days, to be treated for the coronavirus. Trump pulled out of the second debate with Democratic challenger Joe Biden after the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that it would be held virtually as the President had recently been tested positive for the coronavirus. 

Joe Biden has scheduled his own ABC town hall in Philadelphia for the same date after Trump pulled out. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in the meantime, is planning a probe into the president’s capacity to govern after contracting COVID-19. To Pelosi’s warning that Trump is suffering from a “disassociation from reality (that) would be funny if it weren’t so deadly,” Trump responded, “Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation. They don’t call her Crazy for nothing!” Dr Sean Conely, incumbent physician to the president said, “Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday’s diagnosis and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the president’s safe return to public engagement at that time.” 

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