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(CNN) – President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has tested positive for the coronavirus, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter.
“Get well soon Rudy, we’ll move on !!!” Trump wrote Sunday on Twitter.
Giuliani has not announced his diagnosis. CNN has reached out to him for comment.
.@RudyGiulianiBy far the largest mayor in New York history, and who has been working tirelessly to expose the most corrupt election (by far!) in US history, he has tested positive for the China virus. Improve soon Rudy, we will continue !!!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2020
The lawyer has traversed the country to key states, leading the president’s legal battle to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
He was most recently at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta on Thursday to attend a Georgia State Senate hearing on the November elections. During a break in the audience, Giuliani removed the mask he was wearing to greet and take pictures with his followers.
He traveled to Michigan on Wednesday for a four-and-a-half-hour state House committee hearing, during which he was unmasked while promoting misleading claims that the election was stolen from Trump.
At the beginning of the week, Giuliani was in Arizona on Monday, meeting with some Republican members of the state legislature to discuss unsubstantiated allegations that the election was fraudulent.
The 76-year-old former New York mayor is considered at high risk for complications from the coronavirus because of his age.
Last month, Giuliani’s son Andrew, who is a White House staff member, tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a Trump campaign legal team press conference with his father in Washington.
Giuliani is the latest figure in the president’s orbit to contract the virus. The president, first lady Melania Trump, his sons Donald Jr. and Barron, his secretary general Mark Meadows and several other top advisers both in his campaign and in the White House have tested positive in recent months.
Giuliani was also very close to Bill White, a Trump advocate in Georgia who attended the president’s rally Saturday night in Valdosta. White shook hands and hugged Giuliani last week.
As the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths has been increasing, the White House has continued to ignore the recommendations of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to host large events without masks and with little social distancing.
CNN’s Annie Grayer, Wesley Bruer, and DJ Judd contributed to this report.
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