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As President Trump made his way back to the White House Monday evening, the broadcast networks couldn’t hide how they wanted his weekend hospitalization at Walter Reed Medical Center to be his death bed. It was made obvious because all three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were openly complaining about Trump receiving “the very best care in the world” that was “not available to most Americans.”
The coverage on NBC Nightly News was very on-the-nose. While the network was still doing its live shot of Trump exiting Marine One on the South Lawn, chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson huffed about how, “President Trump will have a home experience unlike any other American, with access to 24/7 care, that medical suite at the residence.”
They even did a full report questioning the level of the President’s medical treatment, with anchor Lester Holt proclaiming: “many leading doctors say President Trump's treatments are raising questions, in their minds, as some of the drugs are meant for the sickest patients.”
“Tonight, even the President's own doctors concede they have taken a fast track approach in treating the President involving some higher-risk medications,” announced correspondent Tom Costello. He even targeted the prescription of an experimental antibody cocktail made by Regeneron:
At Walter Reed on Friday, the President was given the highest dose of an experimental antibody cocktail designed to kick start the body's defenses. So far, there are only results on 275 trial patients. Mr. Trump received that antibody treatment under a compassionate use agreement with the company.
The accusation of special treatment forced the co-founder/president/chief scientific officer of Regeneron, Dr. George Yancopoulos to defend his company’s aid to the president of the United States. “I can assure you that there was nothing to the notion that any special relationships or anything like this. We’ve reached out, certainly, to the Biden team to offer our antibody cocktail to them,” he told NBC.
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