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Giuliani’s diagnosis comes after he traversed the country, leading the president’s defiant – and unsuccessful – effort to undo Joe Biden’s victory in the November 3 presidential election.
US President Donald Trump raises his fist after speaking on Election Night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early November 4, 2020. Image: AFP
WASHINGTON, United States – Donald Trump said Sunday that his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani tested positive for COVID-19, the latest member of the president’s inner circle, where the use of masks is rare, to contract the disease.
The former New York City mayor’s age of 76 places him in a high-risk group, with the New York Times and ABC reporting that he was hospitalized in Washington on Sunday as the United States faces a record surge in coronavirus cases.
Giuliani’s diagnosis comes after he has been cruising the country, leading the president’s defiant and unsuccessful effort to undo Joe Biden’s victory in the November 3 presidential election.
During his travels, Giuliani has often been seen without a mask: On Wednesday, he was at the Michigan state assembly in Lansing with his face uncovered for a hearing that lasted more than four hours.
On Thursday, CNN showed images of him in Atlanta walking without a mask down a hallway chatting with several other people whose faces were discovered.
Giuliani, by far the greatest mayor in New York history, and who has been working tirelessly exposing the most corrupt election (by far!) In US history, has tested positive for the China virus “Trump tweeted, using a term that applies to the coronavirus widely denounced as racist and fueling conspiracy theories.
“Improve soon Rudy, we will move on !!!”, added the president.
A few hours earlier, Giuliani was interviewed live on Fox News and showed no signs of the disease.
‘YOU ARE WRONG’
Giuliani’s son Andrew tweeted Sunday that his father was “resting, receiving great attention and feeling good.” Andrew Giuliani, who works at the White House, tested positive for the virus late last month.
Trump’s attorney’s diagnosis also came a day after the president, who long downplayed the severity of the pandemic and even mocked those wearing masks, held his first major political rally since the election, before a tight crowd of thousands of people largely unmasked. supporters in Georgia.
White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx expressed frustration Sunday over anti-mask sentiment in the United States.
“I hear community members … parroting that masks don’t work,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“You are wrong.”
The United States, the country with the most coronavirus cases and deaths in the world, has seen a dramatic resurgence of its epidemic in recent weeks.
For the third day in a row, the United States on Saturday recorded a record number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, reaching nearly 230,000 new infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
A number of members of Trump’s inner circle have contracted the disease since the president himself contracted it weeks before the election.
Among them are his wife Melania, his son Donald Jr., his son Barron, his press secretary, some of his advisers, his campaign manager, and several Republican members of Congress.
Many of them, including Giuliani, followed Trump’s lead, often ignoring guidance from health experts and attending political and White House events without masks.
David Gergen, a senior adviser to four US administrations, noted on CNN that while dozens of people around Trump had contracted the virus, only one or two in Biden’s camp had.
The lesson, Gergen said: “The arrogant attitude adopted by the Trump people will only bring you closer to grasping these things …
“It is as simple as can be.”
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