Harrisburg, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump when he reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
Republican State Sen. Dr. Mast Grimastriyo went to the White House last Wednesday after a more than four-hour public meeting with like-minded Republican state lawmakers that Mastriano had helped host in Gettysburg – Maskless – to discuss efforts to overthrow President-elect Joe Biden. Victory in the kingdom.
Trump told Maastriano that White House medical staff would take care of him, his son and his son’s friend, who were also there for the Oval Office fee meeting and tested positive. The meeting continued after Maestriano and others left, the man said.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private session as the matter is politically sensitive.
Positive coronavirus cases are on the rise across the United States, the country’s top infectious disease specialist said Sunday. That the U.S. The coming weeks could see a “rise above the boom”. The number of new COVID-19 cases reported in the United States for the first time on Friday topped 200,000.
Everyone close to the president must take a quick test. Trump himself was hospitalized after he contracted the virus in Australia. Dozens of White House staffers and others close to the president have also tested positive, including the first lady and the president’s two sons.
At the meeting on Wednesday, all participants took the COVID-19 tests, but positive results were not announced until they arrived at the West Wing of the White House, the person said.
“The president immediately called in a White House doctor and that’s my guess at the medical location,” the man said. The meeting with Trump was to strategize on the effort leading up to the election, the person said.
After Mastriano and others left, discussions with Trump continued for about two hours. Mastriano did not return to the meeting.
Mastriano called a meeting of the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Policy Committee early Wednesday in which Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, another Trump lawyer, drew a crowd of many witnesses and spectators. Only a few of them were masked.
The committee spent several hours showing Giuliani and others their belief that there was a problem with how the Pennsylvania vote is held and how it is counted. All claims Were baseless; No evidence was presented to substantiate any of the allegations they made.
Trump also attended, calling from the White House while one of his lawyers grabbed the phone up to the microphone. He reiterated the same absolute claims of fraud he has been tweeting about for weeks.
The Philadelphia-based Federal Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Trump’s campaign “claims are unfounded,” and that the state’s Supreme Court’s Saturday ruling, which included a legal challenge, upheld Trump’s beliefs despite repeated defeats in state and federal courts. Attempts to prevent the election and the certification of its results.
A pro-Trump, hard-working Trump supporter from Central Pennsylvania’s rural district did not return many messages seeking comment on Sunday.
Republican State Sen. Dave Argel, who chairs the policy committee, declined to comment in a text message on Sunday about Mastrino’s medical condition and visit to the White House.
“I’ve found some conflicting information that I’m trying to solve,” Argle said in the text. “Understanding the Senate statement today will help us all understand this better.”
“Unless I know more, they won’t talk about it in public,” Argyle said.
Senate Republican spokeswoman Kate Fleisner declined to comment, calling it a matter of employees.
A man familiar with the White House visit said several people boarded a large Gettysburg van at the policy committee’s hotel and headed for the White House. Mastriano, his son and son’s friend were rushed to another vehicle.
It was not clear why Maestria’s son and his friend came to the meeting with the state senator, who said Trump and the president’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, were also present and tested positive in early November.
Mast Striano called on the Democratic government to reduce the spread of coronavirus and keep people safe. Has opposed aggressive policies under the administration of Tom Wolf.
He has led rallies where he advocated reopening businesses despite the risk of infection and he repeatedly and vehemently condemned Wolf’s orders. Mastriano also spoke to several thousand Trump supporters who gathered outside the Capitol on November 7, just hours after Democrat B Biden’s national victory became clear.
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The report is co-authored by Jill Colvin, an Associated Press writer in Washington, DC.
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