Although there's definitely a cover-up going on as to the severity of President Trump's illness, I do not believe--as some do--that the whole thing is, to use one of the President's favorite words, a hoax.
Why? Because there are just too many people--most of them outside Trump's circle of White House advisers and toadies--who would have to be "read into" the story for it to be a conspiracy to halt the debates and save the President from embarrassment. Once he was transferred to Walter Reed, it would have required that dozens of nurses, orderlies, technicians, and doctors--many of whom are military officers--be told to lie or obfuscate about what is, quite clearly, a national security issue.
There's no way to make that work--the organizers of the false narrative could never be sure that all of those people would do as they were told, in part because it would violate their oaths as military personnel. There's a lot of fiction written about military officers who act in violation of the honor code (A Few Good Men, anyone?), but my experience is that those officers are few and far between, especially if the given reason for doing so is purely political. They might do it to protect the people they serve with, but not to advance the political objectives of a civilian.
Is somebody--including possibly the President's chief physician--not giving us the whole story? Undoubtedly. But is the core of the story--that President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19 and requires hospitalization--a lie? No.
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