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US President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who tested positive for Covid-19, is fine in hospital and has no fever, the president said Monday at the White House.
“Rudy is fine,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “There’s no temperature, and he actually called me this morning. It was the first call I got.”
The 76-year-old former New York City mayor is the latest in a long line of people close to the White House, including Trump himself, sickened by a pandemic that has killed more than 280,000 Americans.
Giuliani has been spearheading Trump’s hesitant effort to reverse his Nov. 3 election loss to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden through a series of lawsuits.
Trump and Giuliani have repeatedly claimed, contrary to the evidence, that the election result was marred by widespread fraud.
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In the last week, that job took Giuliani to Arizona, Michigan and Georgia. In a series of hearings before state legislators, he urged them to overturn Biden’s victories in those battlefield states.
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Mr. Giuliani and many other attendees did not wear masks at the indoor events, which were packed with elected officials, witnesses and journalists.
The Trump campaign said in a statement Sunday that Giuliani “tested negative twice immediately prior to his trip to Arizona, Michigan and Georgia.”
Giuliani said on Twitter Sunday night that he was “getting a lot of attention and feeling good,” hours after Trump announced that the former mayor had tested positive for Covid-19.
Two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters Giuliani was at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington on Sunday and one said he had been admitted for treatment.
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