Vice President Mike Pence staffer tests positive for coronavirus

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: CNBC

Vice President Mike Pence staffer tests positive for coronavirus

PUBLISHED FRI, MAY 8 202011:25 AM EDT UPDATED 16 MIN AGO
Christina Wilkie
@CHRISTINAWILKIE
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie

KEY POINTS
-- An aide to Vice President Mike Pence has tested positive for coronavirus.
-- The confirmation came one day after news that President Donald Trump’s personal valet had also tested positive.

WASHINGTON — An aide to Vice President Mike Pence has tested positive for coronavirus, a senior administration official confirmed to NBC News on Friday.

The confirmation comes a day after news broke that President Donald Trump’s personal valet had also tested positive.

A spokeswoman for Pence did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

Pence was scheduled to travel to Des Moines, Iowa, in the morning, but his departure from Andrews Air Force Base was delayed by nearly an hour as staff dealt with news of the diagnosis. Reporters traveling with Pence said several staffers disembarked from Air Force Two just before takeoff.

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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/08/vice-president-mike-pence-staffer-tests-positive-for-coronavirus.html

[Squinch]

1. I am a terrible person for the things I am thinking.

[sfstaxprep]

4. I Thought It First!! nt

[KewlKat]

20. I beat you both!!!!

[DeminPennswoods]

29. Me, too

nt

[BigDemVoter]

31. Oh my... Dare we hope?

[catbyte]

2. I know it's bad karma what I'm thinking, but damn...

[Paladin]

3. You've got lots and lots of company. (nt)

[KewlKat]

21. This is a heavy on the bad karma thread...you're allowed.

[Iliyah]

5. And these people flying around everywhere help . .

fan the virus. Also, the virus is mutating, one has to wonder if current testing may be obsolete.

Individual states should have their own testing since the effed up asshole government won't supply them anymore.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. It's getting closer, Mike.

Hoo-boy.......

[H2O Man]

7. Recommended.

If this news continues to spread, people may be tempted to start dancing with wild abdom with wild abdomen. Liquor and pot stocks may soar. But we must remember to wear masks and keep six feet apart.

[JustGene]

8. Wild Abdomen

[Lonestarblue]

9. Oh for a bit of cosmic retribution!

Pence and Trump with the virus.

[not fooled]

10. Wow

I'm surprised news like this got out. red don of course threw a big tantrum so harder to suppress his valet's test result but punce is more controlled.

[cp]

11. 14-day quarantine for Dumpy and Pants?

Yeah, I know. It is medical protocol nevertheless.

[zentrum]

12. But it won't

......make WH start requiring everyone to mask. Even the prima-donnas.

[turbinetree]

13. So the future infected one wants to hold meeting at Camp David with Joint Chiefs

what would he do if no one came, and then mr. muscle that picked up empty boxes in Virginia, is jetting off to Iowa...............

[McCamy Taylor]

14. I am afraid they will send a MAGAT to infect Joe.

[Submariner]

15. Hallelujah....kill 'em all

[bucolic_frolic]

16. A Coronation Virus fit for a King!

The Liar Tweets Tonight!

[Yeehah]

17. Give the VP and Prez a large dose of hydroxychloroquine!

Just to be safe.

(Trumpie's miracle cure)

[Bengus81]

18. Keep em coming!!!!

It's all a HOAX............right Donnie??

[Kali]

19. oh!

did I laugh out loud?

[KewlKat]

22. CDC recommends you self quarantine if been near confirmed cases....

All the cons staff and mothers son should follow protocol, but of course they won’t.

[Talitha]

23. Tick-tock.....

[still_one]

24. Not just anybody but his press secretary, Steven Miller's wife

[DeminPennswoods]

30. That is even better

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Maybe Adolf and Eva will pass away in each other's arms.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. Karma?

Both him and Trump have aids with COVID-19.

I'd like to think this might make both of them rethink easing the rules but I'm not optimistic.

[demmiblue]

26. Katie Miller, Pence spokesperson, tests positive for coronavirus

Katie Miller, a spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence, has tested positive for coronavirus, according to two people with knowledge of Miller's diagnosis.

Miller's positive diagnosis for Covid-19 puts the potential threat of the infection squarely into the president’s inner circle. Miller serves as the vice president’s top spokesperson, traveling with him frequently and attending meetings by his side. She is also married to another top White House aide and senior adviser, Stephen Miller, who writes the majority of Trump’s speeches and spends copious amounts of time around the president, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

Katie Miller’s positive diagnosis raises the risk that, through both her and her husband’s daily work, a large swath of the West Wing’s senior aides may also have been exposed to the novel coronavirus. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany earlier on Friday confirmed that a member of the vice president’s team had tested positive for coronavirus — just one day after one of President Donald Trump's personal valets contracted the illness — although did not specify who the person was.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/08/mike-pence-staffer-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-244816

[AC_Mem]

27. You can spread this without having a positive diagnosis!

Do these utter MORONS not understand that they could be walking carriers, spreading the virus and possibly DEATH by continuing to visit areas rather than err on the side of caution and sit their asses down and wait to see if they get sick!

People are dying - i just want to scream at these idiots, they truly do not care!!! I don't care if they get tested every day - they can have it and not show as positive, but of course that is a fact and we know how they feel about truth and facts.

When will our country have normalcy again? When will we have intelligence again? Seriously - the GOP who are running things - even if they are not stupid - they ACT so stupid that they will be forever labeled as such. Stupid, ignorant, greedy, hateful. I can't think of one redeeming quality - they are all bottom of the barrell.

November - time - please speed up.

[Rae]

28. This thread is kind of gross.

No further comment.

[coeur_de_lion]

32. I want to see this headline with the word staffer removed

Vice President Mike Pence tests positive for coronavirus