总统唐纳德·特朗普选择不谴责被称为QAnon美国联邦调查局(FBI)将此称为潜在的国内恐怖威胁，并在周四晚上与美国全国广播公司(NBC News)举行的市政厅会议上部分赞扬了这一运动。
总统还为转发毫无根据的奥萨马·本·拉登阴谋论进行了辩护，并在他被诊断患有新冠肺炎(新型冠状病毒肺炎)。
特朗普在表示不会参加针对民主党总统候选人的虚拟辩论后，出现在迈阿密的个人市政厅乔·拜登领导了总统辩论委员会取消活动。拜登出现在市政厅美国广播公司新闻在周四同一时间在费城。
许多问题仍然围绕着总统的健康在他治疗新冠肺炎期间和之后从10月2日开始在沃尔特·里德医疗中心。特朗普的白宫医生肖恩·康利(Sean Conley)博士拒绝透露病毒是否对总统的肺部造成任何损害，他是否患有肺炎，或者他上次冠状病毒检测呈阴性是在他的阳性检测之前。
当主持人萨凡纳·古斯瑞问及他的医疗团队是否让他意识到肺炎的迹象时，特朗普最初说“没有”，然后透露他的肺部“有一点不同”，并且“可能感染了”，这在以前是不知道的。
“我没有问太多，”特朗普说。“我真的感觉很好。我的肺没什么问题。我确实有点发烧。显然我觉得少了点什么。”
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2020年10月15日，在迈阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆，唐纳德·特朗普总统在参加全国广播公司新闻市政厅后挥手致意。
白宫也一再拒绝透露总统在诊断前最后一次冠状病毒检测呈阴性的时间。特朗普无法明确回答他最后一次记得在10月1日确诊前与格思里进行往返测试时进行了阴性测试。
“嗯，我测试了不少。我可以告诉你，在辩论之前，我认为这是一场非常好的辩论，我感觉非常好，我以前没有问题，”他说。
被格思里追问他是否在第一次总统辩论9月29日在克利夫兰，特朗普说他不知道，因为他“一直”在测试
“我不知道，我甚至不记得了。我一直在测试，”他说。“但我可以告诉你，辩论结束后，大概一天左右，我想是周四晚上，甚至可能是周四晚上，我检测呈阳性。那是我第一次发现的时候。”
辩论委员会要求候选人在活动前测试阴性，但是使用荣誉系统也没有要求阴性测试的证明。
格思里四次询问特朗普在辩论前是否接受过测试，但没有明确回答问题。
特朗普说:“可能我做了，也可能我没有。”。
总统似乎对镇上的大多数人都很好斗，他告诉格思里“你总是这样做”和“你的下一个问题是什么?”他甚至暗示，与拜登相比，他受到了更严厉的质询，拜登在10月5日与该网络一起出席了市政厅会议。
特朗普似乎对这一系列问题感到沮丧，一度驳斥了格思里，说:“你太可爱了。”
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2020年10月15日，主持人萨凡纳·古斯瑞在迈阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆与美国全国广播公司(NBC)总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)举行的新闻发布会上发言。
当格思里提到特朗普第一次总统辩论的一个时刻时，特朗普似乎特别激动没有谴责白人至上主义者在舞台上，但几天后。她问为什么他最初似乎“犹豫不决”
“犹豫不决?我们又来了，”他说。“每次——事实上我的人来了，‘我肯定他们会问你白人至上的问题。’我谴责白人至上。"
总统随后有机会“一劳永逸地彻底谴责QAnon”，总统不仅拒绝谴责该组织，还再次称赞极右翼极端主义阴谋论“非常强烈地反对恋童癖”。
“我对卡农一无所知，”特朗普说。“我知道的很少。你告诉我了，但你告诉我的不一定能成为事实。我不想这么说。我对此一无所知。我知道他们非常反对恋童癖，他们非常努力地与之斗争。但我对此一无所知。”
总统一再拒绝谴责卡农阴谋，尽管联邦调查局宣布像卡农这样的阴谋论运动是潜在的国内恐怖威胁。在八月的新闻发布会他说他们“热爱这个国家”并感谢他们的支持。
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2020年10月15日，佛罗里达州坦帕市选举前，民主党总统候选人乔·拜登(Joe Biden)和唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统的双市政厅出现在Luv Child餐厅的电视监视器上。
特朗普还拒绝谴责他本周转发的一个虚假的阴谋论，该理论声称拜登“杀害了海豹突击队6队”，以掩盖据称暗杀本·拉登失败的事实。周四晚上，当被问及时，特朗普为转发该阴谋辩护，声称“这是一个转发。那是某人的意见。”
自从海军海豹突击队社区转发这条消息以来，总统一直受到相当大的压力，其中包括前海豹突击队，他公开表示，他在2011年奥巴马总统下令的突袭中杀死了本·拉登。罗伯特·奥尼尔在周二的一系列推特上称总统为总统。
“非常勇敢的人对他们的孩子说再见，去杀死奥萨马·本·拉登。我们是被奥巴马总统下令的。这不是双尸。谢谢总统先生。奥尼尔在推特上写道:“生日快乐@美国海军”，他支持总统，并与小唐纳德·特朗普一起出现在特朗普竞选数字节目中。
特朗普还回避确认他是否有4.21亿美元的债务将在未来几年到期——正如《纽约时报》所做的那样据报告的基于总统的税收记录，但继续将这一数额最小化为类似于“花生”
“当你看到像我这样巨大的房产，它们很大，很漂亮，位置也很好，当你看到这一点时，4亿美元的资金是一颗花生，它的杠杆非常低，而且是由普通银行杠杆控制的。没什么大不了的，”特朗普说。
在被反复追问是否欠下这笔钱时，特朗普从未证实——但也没有否认。
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2020年10月15日，在佩雷斯抵达迈阿密市政厅之前，唐纳德·特朗普总统的支持者聚集在佩雷斯艺术博物馆外。
"你确定，是的，你确实欠了4亿美元?"格思里问。
“我想说的是，这只是我净资产的一小部分，”他说。
当被问及他是否欠任何外国实体的钱时，特朗普说他不知道，但后来似乎进行了对冲，表明这是可能的。
“据我所知没有，但我可能会因为它太容易解决。我会让你知道我欠了谁多少钱。我想说两点。第一，这是非常小的一笔钱。2号，很直。非常非常直。”
President Trump does not denounce QAnon, baseless Osama bin Laden conspiracy theory at town hall
PresidentDonald Trumpchose not to condemn the far-right fringe culture known asQAnon, which the FBI has labeled a potential domestic terror threat, and instead partially praised the movement during a town hall with NBC News on Thursday night.
The president also defended retweeting a baseless Osama Bin Laden conspiracy theory and continued to dodge specifics on his overall health following his diagnosis withCOVID-19.
Trump appeared for his solo town hall in Miami after saying he would not participate in a virtual debate format against Democratic presidential nomineeJoe Biden, which led the Commission on Presidential Debatesto cancel the event. Bidenappeared at a town hallwith ABC News in Philadelphia on Thursday at the same time.
Many questions still surround the president's healthduring and after his treatment for COVID-19at Walter Reed Medical Center beginning Oct. 2. Dr. Sean Conley, Trump's White House physician, has refused to say whether the virus caused any damage to the president's lungs, if he had pneumonia or when he last tested negative for coronavirus before his positive test.
Asked by moderator Savannah Guthrie if his medical team ever made him aware of signs of pneumonia, Trump initially said "no," then revealed that his lungs "were a little bit different," and "perhaps infected," which was not previously known.
"I didn't do too much asking," Trump said. "I really felt good. I didn't have much of a problem with the lungs. I did have a little bit of a temperature. Obviously I felt there was something missing."
President Donald Trump waves after participating in an NBC News Town Hall, at Perez Art Museum Miami, Oct. 15, 2020, in Miami.
The White House has also repeatedly refused to say when the president last tested negative for the coronavirus prior to his diagnosis. Trump could not definitively answer when he last remembered having a negative test before his Oct. 1 diagnosis in a back-and-forth with Guthrie.
"Well, I test quite a bit. And I can tell you that before the debate, which I thought it was a very good debate, and I felt fantastically, I was -- I had no problem before," he said.
Pressed by Guthrie if he was tested the day ofthe first presidential debateon Sept. 29 in Cleveland, Trump said he didn't know because he tests "all the time."
"I don't know, I don't even remember. I test all the time," he said. "But I can tell you this, after the debate, like, I guess, a day or so, I think it was Thursday evening, maybe even late Thursday evening, I tested positive. That's when I first found out."
The debate commission required candidates to test negative before the event, butused an honor systemand did not request proof of a negative test.
Trump was asked four times by Guthrie if he had been tested prior to the debate, but would not clearly answer the question.
"Possibly I did, possibly I didn't," Trump said.
The president appeared combative for the majority of his town hall, at points telling Guthrie "you always do this" and "what's your next question?" He even suggested that he was receiving a more severe line of questioning than Biden, who sat for a town hall with the network on Oct. 5.
At one point, seemingly frustrated with the line of questioning, Trump dismissed Guthrie, saying, "You’re so cute."
Moderator Savannah Guthrie speaks during an NBC News Town Hall with President Donald Trump at Perez Art Museum, Oct. 15, 2020, in Miami.
Trump seemed especially agitated when Guthrie brought up a moment from the first presidential debate when Trumpdid not condemn white supremacistson stage, but did days later. She asked why he initially seemed "hesitant to do so."
"Hesitant? Here we go again," he said. "Every time -- in fact my people came, 'I'm sure they'll ask you the white supremacy question.' I denounce white supremacy."
The president was then given an opportunity to "once and for all denounce QAnon in its entirety," and not only did the president refuse to denounce the group but he again praised the far-right extremist conspiracy theory for being "very strongly against pedophilia."
"I know nothing about QAnon," Trump said. "I know very little. You told me, but what you told me does not necessarily make it fact. I hate to say that. I know nothing about it. I do know they are very much against pedophilia, they fight it very hard. But I know nothing about it."
The president has repeatedly refused to condemn the QAnon conspiracy, despite the FBI declaring conspiracy theory movements like QAnon to be potential domestic terror threats. Inan August press briefing, he said they "love the country" and appreciated their backing.
The dual town halls of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and President Donald Trump are seen on television monitors at Luv Child restaurant ahead of the election in Tampa, Fla., Oct. 15, 2020.
Trump also refused to denounce a false conspiracy theory he retweeted this week that claims Biden "had SEAL Team 6 killed" to cover up the supposedly failed assassination of bin Laden. Trump defended retweeting the conspiracy when asked Thursday night, claiming, "That was a retweet. That was an opinion of somebody."
The president has been taking considerable heat since the retweet from the Navy SEAL community, including from the former SEAL who has publicly said he killed bin Laden in the 2011 raid ordered by President Obama. Robert O'Neill called out the president in a series of tweets Tuesday.
"Very brave men said goodby to their kids to go kill Osama bin Laden. We were given the order by President Obama. It was not a body double. Thank you Mr. President. Happy birthday @USNavy," O'Neill tweeted, who supports the president and has appeared on Trump campaign digital shows with Donald Trump Jr.
Trump also dodged confirming whether he has $421 million in debt coming due in the coming years -- as The New York Times hasreportedbased on the president's tax records -- but went on to minimize that amount as being akin to a "peanut."
"When you look at vast properties like I have, and they're big and they're beautiful and they're well located, when you look at that, the amount of money, $400 million, is a peanut, it's extremely underleveraged and it's leveraged with normal banks. Not a big deal," Trump said.
Pressed repeatedly on whether he owes that amount, Trump never confirmed it -- but did not deny it either.
Supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside Perez Art Museum before his arrival for a town hall in Miami, Oct. 15, 2020.
"Are you confirming that, yes, you do owe some $400 million?" Guthrie asked.
"What I'm saying is it's a tiny percentage of my net worth," he said.
Asked if he owes money to any foreign entities, Trump said none that he is aware of, but then seemed to hedge, suggesting it was possible.
"Not that I know of, but I will probably because it's so easy to solve. I will let you know who I owe whatever small amount of money. I want to say two things. No. 1, it's a very small amount of money. No. 2, it's very straight. Very, very straight."
