One expert said ‘evidence-based assessments’ of health are valid, especially amid concerns about Trump’s public absence and visible bruising
Early in Donald Trump’s news conference on Tuesday, Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked a question that surely baffled people who avoided social media for Labour Day.
“How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?” Doocy said to the president.
Doocy was referring to speculation about Trump’s health that spread online during the long weekend, fuelled in part by the president’s relative absence from the public for several days. The incident has renewed – for a different president – questions about how journalists should handle the sensitive issue of how healthy an ageing leader of the free world actually is.
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