Trump rails against Meadows for revealing Covid test cover-up ? report

In a blurb on the cover of Mark Meadows' new book, Donald Trump calls the former congressman a "great chief of staff - as good as it gets" and predicts "a great future together". The former president has also promoted the book to his followers.

Now the book is in the public domain, however, the former president reportedly thinks it is "garbage" and that Meadows was "fucking stupid" to write it.

Influential members of the House committee investigating the deadly Capitol attack, meanwhile, have said Meadows may have undermined his own defence when seeking to block their inquiries.

The Chief's Chief will be published next week. This week, the Guardian broke the news that according to Meadows, Trump tested positive for Covid three days before the first presidential debate with Joe Biden in September last year.

Meadows also details how that test, like another which came back negative, was covered up. Trump eventually announced a positive test on 2 October, the day he was admitted to hospital in Maryland. The White House said that positive result was announced within an hour.

This week, amid huge controversy over whether Trump had endangered not only Biden but the White House press corps, debate staff, the families of fallen US service members, businessmen and more, Trump called the Guardian report "fake news" - a judgment with which Meadows, bizarrely, agreed.

But outlets including the New York Times and the Washington Post confirmed the cover-up.