Back here, I mentioned how reprehensible it was that after Donald Trump tested positive for COVID, he and his aides hid that fact and he continued to meet with unsuspecting people and to appear at a debate with Joe Biden. This was, we are told, revealed in the forthcoming book by Trump aide Mark Meadows.
Several folks wrote to "inform" me that the story is Fake News and as near as I can tell, they were basing that wholly on denials by Trump and Meadows…as if those two men had no reason to lie and never have. I still await the release of the Meadows book so we can all see if the reporters who quoted him were quoting him inaccurately or if the book does indeed say what they said it says. I suspect that if the quote was inaccurate, Meadows would have released the relevant passages along with his denial.
But we can wait and see that. In the meantime, William Saletan catalogues the way in which Meadows' account is "evolving," which in this case is another way of saying he can't seem to get his story straight.