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I am completely failing to keep track of all this news breaking about Trump testing positive and what the White House did in the days prior, so I'm just gonna make a thread...
via Fox, Trump skipped the COVID tests at the Tuesday debate: https://twitter.com/AndrewKirell/status/1312121190597586944
via Fox, Trump skipped the COVID tests at the Tuesday debate: https://twitter.com/AndrewKirell/status/1312121190597586944
9 people at the White House / WH journos have tested positive so far: https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1312119277210660865 also a tracker here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tracking-covid-19-infections-among-president-trumps-contacts-n1241877
The WH did not affirmatively release info about Hope Hicks' positive test -- reporters made it public: https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1311865699954982912
Trump traveled to Minnesota on Wednesday on Air Force One, with 3 MN GOP members of Congress: @RepHagedorn, @RepTomEmmer & @RepPeteStauber.
While in MN, Trump held a “$200,000 per couple” fundraiser at The Shorewood. Among those there: South Dakota @govkristinoem
While in MN, Trump held a “$200,000 per couple” fundraiser at The Shorewood. Among those there: South Dakota @govkristinoem
MN State House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, took a photo next to Trump outside AF1 on Wednesday https://twitter.com/kdaudt/status/1311424583241814017
Then on Thursday, AFTER the White House knew Hope Hicks was positive, Trump went to a fundraiser at his golf club in Bedminster before announcing he himself was positive for COVID. Sources from the fundraiser said "he seemed tired" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-covid/2020/10/02/b91072e6-04c3-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1311917943182233600
Senator Mike Lee, who's tested positive for COVID and is a member of the Senate Judiciary Cmte meant to hear ACB's nomination, was hugging & kissing people with no mask at ACB's Saturday nomination announcement https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1309969814635646985 /7
ACB told colleagues she previously contracted COVID over the summer https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1312078616117874689
Mike Lee tested positive for COVID today (Friday). Yesterday, he was indoors, with no mask, nexxt to Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1312121805465763840 /9
CORRECTION: Mike Lee was tested Thursday for COVID, got results he was positive Friday, still went into the Senate Thursday, exposing his colleagues https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1312128340703158272
Trump getting experimental treatments; No independent information on the seriousness of the President's condition https://twitter.com/FridaGhitis/status/1312123951204593664
Latest on Trump's symptoms: https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1312121651492872192
Senator McConnell won't say the last time he was tested;
further down thread you can see he ALSO won't say if the Senate will change testing procedures;
McConnell also spoke w/o a mask today (see up thread) https://twitter.com/joesonka/status/1312125773117976576
further down thread you can see he ALSO won't say if the Senate will change testing procedures;
McConnell also spoke w/o a mask today (see up thread) https://twitter.com/joesonka/status/1312125773117976576
Image from what seems to be the most likely case for how all these infections started -- the nomination announcement for ACB, with hardly any masks in sight: https://twitter.com/markgongloff/status/1312075531001757696
From the same Saturday ACB nomination event, AG Bill Barr was wiping his nose and not wearing a mask, also shaking hands: https://twitter.com/evenbev/status/1312078525491556352
. @bhrenton is tracking positive and negative White House COVID tests; 11 positive so far including Trump, Melania, the GOP Chairwoman, Sen Mike Lee, Hope Hicks, 3 journalists, more here: https://twitter.com/bhrenton/status/1312107367903887360
Trump headed to Walter Reed https://twitter.com/jakesherman/status/1312138831731200000
On the timing of the Walter Reed announcement https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein/status/1312141017387130880
10:30am today -- masks still not mandatory at White House
4:30pm today -- masks ARE mandatory at the White House
4:30pm today -- masks ARE mandatory at the White House
Rapidly degrading descriptions of Trump's condition throughout the day: https://twitter.com/RyanLizza/status/1312140655976562698
Trump's doctors requested the use of the experimental Regeneron cocktail https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1312136996286996480
Trump says no transition of power: https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1312141775016849409
Trump walks from the White House to Marine One to be airlifted to Walter Reed; grips both railings on the way up
recorded message from Trump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312158400352972800
Reports that Trump is spooked: https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1312159660871278592
Biden campaign pulls negative ads; Trump campaign refuses to do so https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1312173056945655808
Trump adviser tells CNN "This is serious," and describes Trump as very fatigued & having some trouble breathing. https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1312181888727961601
Second GOP Senator tests positive for COVID: https://twitter.com/nielslesniewski/status/1312183615497793536
Secret Service angry enough to be anonymously speaking to the press about Trump endangering their health https://twitter.com/frankfigliuzzi1/status/1312180888524865536
Politico labeling photo from the Rose Garden event Saturday where it seems likely Senators Tillis and Lee contracted the virus https://twitter.com/steventdennis/status/1312195626629623809
“While he could still walk on his own” https://twitter.com/ashleyrparker/status/1312204066622066688
The @nytimes tracked Trump’s travel in the days before his positive test https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/02/us/politics/trump-contact-tracing-covid.html
“Inside the West Wing...where staffers for months have worked in proximity largely without masks, what had long been an atmosphere of invincibility turned into one of apprehension and panic. ‘People are losing their minds,’ said the outside adviser.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-virus-spread-white-house/2020/10/02/38c5b354-04cc-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html
Following reports from her daughter on TikTok that her mother tested positive, Kellyanne Conway confirms: https://twitter.com/kellyannepolls/status/1312214949658152960
Minnesota’s three Republican congressmen Reps. Pete Stauber, Tom Emmer and Jim Hagedorn
flew home on a Delta flight from D.C. Friday night, despite airline restrictions on passengers recently exposed to COVID-19-positive people such as Trump https://www.startribune.com/3-minn-gop-house-members-fly-delta-home-after-covid-19-exposure/572619782/
flew home on a Delta flight from D.C. Friday night, despite airline restrictions on passengers recently exposed to COVID-19-positive people such as Trump https://www.startribune.com/3-minn-gop-house-members-fly-delta-home-after-covid-19-exposure/572619782/
VP Pence was seated in front of Senator Mike Lee at the Rose Garden event. Senator Lee has since tested positive for COVID https://twitter.com/darakass/status/1312218497137639425
