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IN QUARANTINE: President of the United States, Donald Trump. Photo: SAUL LOEB / AFP
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were quarantined and tested for the coronavirus after their close adviser, Hope Hicks, was confirmed to be infected.
This is what the president says on his own Twitter account.
– Hope Hicks, who has worked so hard without taking the slightest break, has just tested positive for the coronavirus. Cruel! confirm.
– The first lady and I are awaiting the results of our tests. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process, says the president.
Close advisor
Few advisers are closer to Trump than Hope Hicks. She has recently traveled with Trump several times, including for the first presidential debate in Cleveland with Joe Biden on Tuesday.
He was also on Marine One with several of Trump’s closest advisers, Jared Kushner, Dan Scavino and Nicholas Luna, none of them wearing masks, when Trump went to an election campaign event in Minnesota on Wednesday.
CLOSE ADVISOR: Hope Hicks works closely with the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Photo: ERIK S. LESSER / EPA
– It tested positive. I just figured out. It tested positive. She is a worker. Lots of face masks, she wears face masks often but tested positive. Then I went out and they did the test. We’ll see, you know, the first lady and I spend a lot of time with her. So she’s being tested too, Trump told Hannity.
The president’s public program for Friday, which was announced shortly after he attended “Hannity,” shows he was going to a fundraiser at his hotel in Washington and then to Sanford in Florida for an election campaign event.
Defy the advice of the crown
Trump, who has been criticized for his handling of the corona pandemic, has repeatedly challenged the advice of his own coronavirus task force.
This, among other things, in the way in which several of the employees of his administration dropped the bandages and through the president’s participation in a series of events full of electoral campaign.
In Hannity’s interview, Trump speculated that Hicks may have been infected by the virus from a supporter.
– He’s a very warm person. She is having a hard time, when the soldiers and the police approach her, she will treat them well. She won’t say “stay away, I can’t be near you”. It’s a very, very cheap disease, says Trump.
A source tells CNN that Hicks has experienced symptoms and is back in Washington. It is not clear how severe your symptoms are.
VG updates the case.
