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reThe Onald Trump infection is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. More and more employees of the president and politicians around him are reporting positive test results. Anonymous White House sources inform reporters of the panic and anger. Some can’t help but feel that the president was putting his own people in danger. Trump had a fever, cough and a stuffy nose, it was said Friday afternoon. However, he will remain at Walter Reed Hospital for a few days. There is a kind of presidential suite there where you can continue with your official business.
A temporary transfer of power to Vice President Mike Pence is not considered, the White House said. Trump was seen in a short video in which he thanked the wishes of recovery and assured that the hospitalization was a precaution so that everything went well. In the evening he briefly reported on Twitter: “I think it’s going well. Thank you all. LOVE! “
That morning it was said that the president and first lady Melania, who was also infected, could be cured at the White House. But either the doctors wanted to be sure or Trump’s condition worsened during the day. The decision to go to the clinic must now have been made with a view to the election campaign: The images showed Trump walking towards his helicopter. It cannot be ruled out that a day or two later there would have been photographs of an ambulance. All appearances in the election campaign have been canceled until further notice.
Trump is known for not wearing a protective mask and for many of his supporters and employees who do the same. According to the CDC’s disease control authority guidelines, anyone who has been to the smaller events with the president in recent days should go into quarantine. This affects many members of the Cabinet, politicians in Congress and Trump’s inner circle, but also people from his campaign staff and hundreds of donors, as well as countless White House employees who serve food to the President, bring them to appointments or guarantee their safety. Counselor Hope Hicks had symptoms of Covid 19 as of Wednesday at the latest. At least some of Trump’s employees were briefed thereafter. As a result, journalists asked on Friday evening television panel discussions whether Trump had knowingly put other people at risk in recent days. “He never cared about us,” the Washington Post quoted an anonymous Secret Service employee as saying.
At least eight people with whom Trump was in closest contact have now tested positive: in addition to Hicks and the First Lady, they are Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC); Senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah; Trump campaign leader Bill Stepien; Kellyanne Conway, the influential advisor who recently resigned from Trump, and the Rev. John Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame. Jenkins, like most of those named, was in the White House last Saturday when Trump solemnly nominated Notre Dame graduate Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The incident took place in the rose garden, but according to media reports, the political coup took place in various rooms of the White House.
