BREAKING: President Donald Trump will be at Walter Reed Military Medical Center for the “next few days,” the White House said. This comes after Trump announced earlier in the day that he had tested positive for Covid19
Inside an eerily quiet White House Friday morning, a barebones staff scrambled to contain the fallout from a nightmare scenario: President Donald Trump and his wife Melania hobbled by the coronavirus in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign.
Campaign officials and Trump aides who were contacted by the White House Medical Unit as part of contact tracing measures were asked to report for testing early Friday afternoon, while others who believed they may have been at risk of exposure were left to procure coronavirus tests on their own. Trump may have contracted the virus after interacting with his aide Hope Hicks, a top White House communications official who tested positive Wednesday night. But it is also possible he became infected last Saturday while hosting a Rose Garden ceremony to introduce Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett or in the days leading up to the first debate.
Friday afternoon, Trump campaign aides began planning the president’s schedule in light of the new limitations, which will severely impact both official events — including Oval Office signing ceremonies and Rose Garden speeches — and campaign appearances that Trump had planned for the coming weeks. Trump was also notably silent on Twitter, causing some in the White House and campaign to wonder if he was more sick than advertised.
The person said it might not be so bad if Trump is off the road for a couple weeks, because he won’t say anything controversial at a rally. Conversely, though, “My fear is that he’s alone with a Twitter feed,” the person said.
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