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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 12:50 AM Jun 2020

Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents told to self-quarantine after Trump's Tulsa rally

Source: MSN

Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents who were on site for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa last week were ordered to self-quarantine after two of their colleagues tested positive for the novel coronavirus, part of the fallout from Trump’s insistence on holding the mass gathering over the objections of public health officials.

The Secret Service instructed employees who worked the Tulsa event to stay at home for 14 days when they returned from the weekend trip, according to two people familiar with the agency’s decision.

The order came in the wake of the discovery — hours before the president’s Saturday evening rally — that at least six advance staffers who helped organize the trip had tested positive for the virus, including two Secret Service employees. Another two advance staffers tested positive after Trump returned to Washington on Sunday.

On Tuesday, the Secret Service field office in Tulsa arranged for a special testing session at a local hospital to determine if local agents had contracted the virus while assisting with the rally, according to two other people with knowledge of the testing. As part of the arrangement, doctors administered the test to both agents and some local officials in parked cars outside the hospital.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dozens-of-secret-service-officers-and-agents-told-to-self-quarantine-after-trumps-tulsa-rally/ar-BB15WboR?li=BBnb7Kz



I hope that the Secret Service Agents are getting paid after being told to self-quarantine, though I could see Trump doing a dick move and refusing to pay their salary while they are in self-quanrantine.
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Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents told to self-quarantine after Trump's Tulsa rally (Original Post) TomCADem Jun 2020 OP
I hope all those SS appreciate tRump putting their lives on the line so he can get his yaesu Jun 2020 #1
I say they and Trump should have a group hug before self muntrv Jun 2020 #2
I'm still hoping that Trump gets the virus either from Tulsa or the Arizona meeting. Lonestarblue Jun 2020 #3
Does this mean that the oath the Secret Service has to take will add marie999 Jun 2020 #4
21st century sucide by POTUS llashram Jun 2020 #5

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
1. I hope all those SS appreciate tRump putting their lives on the line so he can get his
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 12:57 AM
Jun 2020

attention fix. Another good reason why the House should cut off his security funding.

Lonestarblue

(9,880 posts)
3. I'm still hoping that Trump gets the virus either from Tulsa or the Arizona meeting.
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 07:37 AM
Jun 2020

He deserves the virus for being so selfish in putting the lives of the people who had to be there with him at risk. How many people will Senate Republicans allow Trump to kill before they work up the courage to tell him to resign? Rhetorical question. They don’t care.

 

marie999

(3,334 posts)
4. Does this mean that the oath the Secret Service has to take will add
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 07:48 AM
Jun 2020

I will take a Corvid-19 virus for the president.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
5. 21st century sucide by POTUS
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 08:49 AM
Jun 2020

Charge of the Light Brigade, 21st century redux. May all those people "following orders" be well.

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