Doctor: I tried to show Trump’s upbeat attitude by not saying he was placed on oxygen

US President Donald Trump’s physician says he was trying to “reflect the upbeat attitude” of the president and his medical team when he declined to share yesterday that Trump was placed on oxygen the day before.

Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley was pressed on why his rosy picture of the president’s health was contradicted moments later by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who expressed that the medical team was very concerned with the president’s health Friday morning, when he experienced a drop in his blood oxygen levels and had a high fever.

Says Conley: “I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude of the team, that the president, that his course of illness has had.”

He adds that he “didn’t want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction. And in doing so, came off like we’re trying to hide something, which wasn’t necessarily true.”

— AP