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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who tested positive for COVID-19, is well in hospital and has no fever, the president said at the White House on Monday.
“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.”
Giuliani, the 76-year-old former New York City mayor, tested positive for COVID-19 and is the latest in a long line of people close to the White House, including Trump himself, who fell ill in a pandemic that has killed more than 280,000 Americans.
Giuliani has spearheaded Trump’s hesitant effort to reverse his Nov. 3 electoral defeat to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden through a series of lawsuits.
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 battle states.
Giuliani and many other attendees did not wear face 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.”
Trump and Giuliani have repeatedly claimed, contrary to the evidence, that the result was marred by widespread fraud.
Giuliani said on Twitter Sunday night that he was “getting a lot of attention and feeling good,” hours after Trump announced that his 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.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Mike Stone in Washington, DC and Jan Wolfe in Boston; Edited by Chris Reese and David Gregorio)
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