President Trump briefly left Walter Reed medical center quarantine to drive by a group of supporters — a move that was swiftly criticized by medical experts and Democrats as 'insanity.'
"To bask in the adulation of a handful of his supporters, trump just endangered the lives of Secret Service agents and others in his entourage," he added.to recklessly expose others, said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.
"Pray for the Secret Service." White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended the move in an interview with Fox News, stating that Trump"wanted to thank his supporters" and"give confidence to the American people that their Commander in Chief can get through this" but not respond to questions about safety concerns., a top adviser to the Trump campaign, insisted in an interview with CNN that Trump drove by in"a safe way," but was unable to answer questions about what precautions were taken to keep the Secret Service agents safe. "But we also know Secret Service takes great care of their agents, extra precaution. I'm not part of White House operations or the White House medical unit. So the exact logistics I can't speak to but I know the Secret Service takes this very seriously," Miller said. When asked about the surprise motorcade, a spokesperson from U.S. secret Service said"We don’t comment on protective operations." Trump's motorcade drive on Sunday is the latest in a series of efforts by the president and his allies to provide the American public with a rosy picture of his coronavirus diagnosis, often obfuscating the facts around his illness and creating confusion about the state of the president's health.of himself working in the presidential suite at Walter Reed. When asked at a press conference earlier Sunday why the president is not wearing a mask in any of these images when presumably someone else was in the room capturing the moment, Dr. Sean Conley, a White House physician, said that the president wore a mask when around the doctors. "The president wears a mask anytime he's around us and we're all wearing our N95's, full PPE," Conley stated, adding that when the time came to move Trump out of the hospital and into the public,"we'll talk about him wearing a mask."
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