Trump’s crown has caused a rift in the White House

Of: Johan edgar

Published: October 05, 2020 at 01.21

The coronavirus has hit the White House like a tidal wave, creating panic and mistrust.

Employees no longer dare to trust each other, writes the Washington Post.

– Many in the building do not tell the truth about what is happening to others, a senior staff official tells the newspaper.

It is a template used to crises, conflicts, revelations and investigations. But now the White House is going through its worst moment since Donald Trump won the 2016 election.

According to The Guardian, the mood is one of panic. Concerns are growing about the spread of infections in the building and whether, in the worst case scenario, it could threaten staff opportunities to serve as president.

The president is being treated in hospital after a night of terror with a high fever and decreased oxygenation of the blood. After all the conflicting information about their condition, many are skeptical of the positive picture painted by their doctor.

Several Republican senators tested positive for the virus. Former advisers like Kellyanne Conway and Chris Christie are ill, the latter so much that he has been hospitalized. Trump’s campaign manager and his personal assistant also tested positive for COVID-19.

Frustration increases

Vice President Mike Pence, who has so far tested negative for the disease, has announced that he will continue his campaign work, causing many to fear what will happen if he too becomes ill.

At the same time, elections are less than a month away and both debates and campaign meetings are in jeopardy while the president is sick and contagious. Meanwhile, Democratic candidate Joe Biden walks away in the polls.

Among White House staff members still on duty and not required to self-quarantine, frustration and distrust of the administration, and among them, is increasing, writes the Washington Post.

At the center of the rift is Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. It sparked the ire of Donald Trump when he anonymously told reporters on the spot at the doctors’ press conference on Saturday that Friday had been concerning, that the next 48 hours were critical and that the president was not yet in danger.

Tasks that went against the positive tones that the medical team had just arrived.

He writes both the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Angry with the chief of staff

This led to Trump first tweeting how well he was doing, then picking up the phone and talking to his friend Rudy Giuliani and asking him to say the same thing and, a few hours later, sending a four-minute video message who also spoke. how good it feels.

On Sunday night, Trump posted another video and said it would give fans a little surprise. Minutes later, he was ushered past the jubilant crowd before returning to the hospital grounds.

Many members of the White House staff were also unhappy with Meadow’s move, which was widely circulated in the media and diluted the confusion surrounding his health.

“It didn’t help us,” one of the staff members told the Washington Post.

– We have not been able to communicate this to people, says another.

Several administration employees tell the newspaper that a rift has arisen between different people and that they dare not trust each other.

“I can tell you what I heard, but I honestly have no idea,” a source close to Trump told the Washington Post.

– Many in the building do not tell the truth about what happens to others.

Minimized the danger

While Chief of Staff Meadows is being criticized for being too outspoken about Trump’s symptoms, staff members are also angry that he has previously downplayed the danger from the coronavirus. According to three of the newspaper’s sources, Mark Meadows has not required oral protection from employees and organized large meetings in which Trump participated without anyone wearing protection.

He is also said to have been skeptical of expert advice on Covid-19 and allowed outsiders, including his wife and other family members, to travel with Air Force One.

– He is not someone who predicts the danger of the virus, says the source.

Critical reporter and award-winning author Gabriel Sherman offers a similar picture of management cues. In an article titled “Nobody Knows How to End It: White House Riots” published in Vanity Fair, he spoke with sources close to Trump’s adviser Hope Hicks.

Hicks was the first in the president’s close circle to test positive for the virus on Wednesday and was later quarantined aboard Air Force One. In early media coverage, before increasingly stating that the big outbreak was caused by a super spreader at Amy Coney Barrett’s ceremony at the White House, was pinpointed as the source of Trump’s illness.

Mocked mouth guard

She is said to be frustrated at being unfairly singled out, and also by Trump’s careless handling of the crown pandemic. Hope Hicks is said to be one of the few employees in the president’s close circle who wore mouth guards to meetings, something her colleagues ridiculed.

– They joked with her because she was wearing a mouth guard, a source tells Vanity Fair.

According to the information, she must have been badly affected by the virus with a high fever, cough, and loss of sense of smell.

Even if Trump quickly emerges from the crisis, according to the medical team, he can be discharged on Monday, and anxiety settles in the White House, the next few weeks can be difficult. The upcoming October 15 debate against Biden is in jeopardy and the question is how long the president must be in quarantine before he is no longer considered contagious.

– It’s challenging. It would be better if the discussions were about jobs and the economy, or even how Joe Biden “is being held hostage by the left.” But the election will be on the coronavirus and it is not favorable terrain for Republicans, Republican pollster Glen Bolger tells the AP news agency.

Published: October 05, 2020 at 01.21

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