Meadows self-quarantines after possible exposure to coronavirus patient

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who is set to become President Trump's next acting chief of staff, will self-quarantine at his home after learning that he may have come into contact with a person who later tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his office said.

Meadows is one of several GOP lawmakers that attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland last month to announce that they gone under a self-quarantine.

Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have said they were in contact with the individual at the convention that later tested positive for the virus.

"Out of an abundance of caution, Meadows received testing which came back negative," Meadows spokesperson Ben Williamson said. "While he’s experiencing zero symptoms, under doctors’ standard precautionary recommendations, he'll remain at home until the 14 day period expires this Wednesday."

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/486737-meadows-self-quarantines-after-possible-exposure-to-coronavirus

[left-of-center2012]

1. Meadows joins White House facing reelection challenges

President Trump has installed Mark Meadows, one of his fiercest allies on Capitol Hill, as his fourth chief of staff, ushering in new leadership at the White House in the heat of the 2020 race that’s being overshadowed by coronavirus.

Meadows faces a major test as he takes on the role of chief of staff amid a growing public health crisis and Trump’s burgeoning reelection fight.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/486731-meadows-joins-white-house-facing-reelection-challenges

[AZ8theist]

23. Hopefully, he quarantines himself for the next 50 fucking years....

This guy is the king of DOUCHE BAGS.
(and that's a VERY, VERY competitive field......)

[Scarsdale]

27. Right off the bat, he

is defying his new orange master. tRump is telling people to go to work, even with the virus. Why didn't Meadows comply? He could have done the country a BIG favor, going to work and getting close to tRump.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

38. I doubt ...

... he meant anyone that worked with/near HIM should come to work when sick.

Our president lacks empathy and I do not think he considers anyone else quite real. But if something directly impacts or threatens him, the problem suddenly becomes very real.

I cannot imagine he is anxious to have potential carriers come to his office.

[Leghorn21]

2. All the sceaming idiots are layin low, eh

It's...it's just weird

Surely Lindsay attended the festivities?

sup Linds

[totodeinhere]

12. Yes but Democrats will not be immune either.

I just read that a Democratic congresswoman from California says that she might have been exposed.

[Leghorn21]

14. Oh sure, toto - no one is guaranteed safe, certainly not at this point - and I just read about the

Dem, Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Calif.), she's taking time off

best wishes to all

[totodeinhere]

16. And a lot of DU members are in the most vulnerable age group as well.

I'm 73 with underlying conditions. It's very scary.

[Leghorn21]

19. We sure are, toto - I'm almost 70, with early COPD...I'm a good candidate to get this virus

I find DU a great source of comfort and information on the best ways to mitigate the coming onslaught -

[Scarsdale]

28. Lindsey is busy

trying to prove that Hunter Biden is as corrupt as the tRump "kids". Good luck with that, Lindsey. Don. Jr.'s side piece is even getting paid from donations to tRump!! She threw a snit because her checks were late. This explains WHY she is still there with the obnoxious little asshole.

[Raven]

3. Trump was with all of these people. Why the hell is

he still walking around shaking hands?

[paleotn]

5. Typhoid Trump

[CountAllVotes]

18. +1

& recommend!!

[totodeinhere]

13. I sure would not shake his hand.

But then even before this I would not shake his hand.

[Scarsdale]

29. So very true!

I would not want to be anywhere near this orange disaster.

[AZ8theist]

24. beeeeeee cause he's a FUCKING MORON??

just sayin'...

[paleotn]

4. Karma-19 strikes again.

[Zorro]

6. How about swilling some bleach while you're at it, Mark

[machoneman]

8. I hear cyanide works for wingers, really! LOL

[AZ8theist]

25. Jim Bakers Silver Solution.....

Plus drinking bleach should cure all the rubes. I recommend it!!!!

[dewsgirl]

7. Was the guy a donor? I thought he was from a church?

[hedda_foil]

9. That's a different man ... A DC priest.

[dewsgirl]

10. Oh, I thought there was only one in DC. Wait a second,

was the CPAC guy from Canada? Maybe that was AIPAC, it's getting harder to keep up.

[Scarsdale]

30. They would make things easier

if they would name all these organizations by the same name. "Morans 'R us" Using one of their followers spelling. "Idiots 'R Us" "Grifters 'R Us" The tRump family motto. Most attendees are the same people at all these gatherings. Juvenile frat boys like Goetz, Gym Jordan and others.

[dewsgirl]

34. Yes..that would certainly make things easier.

[DesertRat]

11. First day on the job

Link to tweet

[Traildogbob]

15. Russian funded

Ridiculously Gerry meandered district, which the courts just blew up. He cosponsered a bill to shut down/privatize one of the top rated VA Hospitals in the country, Asheville. He lied to constituents at a town hall when confronted by a retired Lieutenant Colonel when asked why. Him being re-elected was bleak at best. If he gets the virus from his head up trumps ass, lying to Americans, as he always has to his constituents......to repeat words from a wise woman, "I really don't care, do you"?

[Scarsdale]

31. Wise woman?

She MARRIED tRump! How wise was that? Oh, well she was aging out of her previous (oldest) profession, so he was a convenient mark. Con artist was conned, it goes either way with these two.

[Traildogbob]

35. That was obvious sarcasm.

Like calling the blob a stable genious. Stable, really. That top heavy. You can push him over like a Nunez cow.

[rustbeltvoice]

17. what? didn't his lord and master say this was a hoax?

[durablend]

20. Why doesn't he do what Dr. Pence says?

Just "pray it away"

[LudwigPastorius]

21. Trump's going to fire him.

He can't have someone who came into contact with an infected person near him, even if Meadows shows no symptoms after two weeks.

I suspect, by November, Trump will be in full-on Howard Hughes mode...wearing Kleenex boxes on his feet and jarring his urine.

[Dem2theMax]

22. The whole world's going to hell,

And I'm sitting here laughing my head off at the image of drumpf with Kleenex boxes on his feet.



Thank you. I needed that!

[True Blue American]

26. Mike DeWine

Just told people not to attend Biden or Sanders rallies in Ohio today!

[bullwinkle428]

37. Meadows just basically "Scaramucci-ed" himself!

[Paladin]

32. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

So nice to receive confirmation that CPAC is an even more toxic event than we imagined.

Is trump still greeting the multitudes, bare-handed? Hope so.

[PJMcK]

33. I think I understand this

Trump keeps spouting off telling the world that the virus is a hoax and that people should keep going to work and traveling.

But his Chief-of-Staff and main cheerleaders in Congress have all self-quarantined.

That seems contradictory, doesn't it? I mean, if Trump is always right, as the cheerleaders keep insisting, then why are they defying him?

[mmbrevo]

36. I see he got tested..

That's why they're holding onto the test kits, so they can use them on important people. I think these lazy sobs just want some time off. I'm sure they have plenty of sick time. Must be nice.