The list of friends, family, colleagues, and associates of Donald Trump finding out they have COVID-19 is getting longer, as the White House has been revealed as a possible pandemic petri dish — many of those who are testing positive for the virus were at a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden on Saturday.
While many others — including Vice-President Mike Pence and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden — have come out to say they just tested negative for coronavirus, it can take up to two weeks to incubate in the body before being picked up by testing. Since the White House event, many prominent Republicans have mingled — often maskless — at the presidential debates and at fundraisers in New Jersey and Minnesota; the list will very likely get longer. A White House staffer and three journalists in the WH press pool have already tested positive as well.
Below, a running list of Trump-related persons who have test positive for coronavirus:
Hope Hicks
Senior adviser Hope Hicks was the first person diagnosed in the inner circle, on Thursday, after spending several days in close proximity with the president. Per the New York Times, “officials at the White House have known about Ms. Hicks’s likely diagnosis since Wednesday evening, when she traveled with the president aboard Air Force One to Minnesota for a campaign rally in Duluth. One person familiar with the events on Wednesday said that Ms. Hicks began exhibiting minor symptoms around the time of Mr. Trump’s rally, and that she was quarantined on the return flight to Washington and then disembarked from the back entrance of the plane.”
Ronna McDaniel
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel apparently tested positive on Wednesday. The last time she was with the president was Friday, she says.
Donald Trump
Trump confirmed Hicks’s diagnosis on Hannity on Thursday night, and added that he and the First Lady had been tested. “She wears masks a lot,” he said, “but she still tested positive.” Within three hours, he and Melania Trump had tested positive too. Trump’s condition is unknown, but Mike Pence led a call with governors that was scheduled for Trump in his place on Friday morning. The White House gave a statement on his condition, that he and Melania have “mild symptoms.”
Melania Trump
Melania Trump tested positive with her husband. She tweeted, “We are feeling good.”
Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah
Lee tested positive on Thursday, after which footage circulated of the senator, maskless, hugging and meeting with people at the White House SCOTUS event. The Hill reports, before being tested, “He met with Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, on Tuesday, took part in closed-door GOP caucus lunches and was at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s business meeting on Thursday.”
Father John Jenkins
The president of Notre Dame University, also at the White House on Saturday, tested positive on Friday. He was criticized for attending Barrett’s nomination announcement without a mask.
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