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orleans

(34,051 posts)
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 01:23 AM Oct 2020

Trump Aide Luna Tests Positive for Virus in New White House Case

Source: bloomberg

White House aide Nick Luna, who serves as a personal attendant to President Donald Trump, has tested positive for coronavirus infection, according to people familiar with the matter.

Luna’s diagnosis emerged a little more than 24 hours after Trump entered the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment of Covid-19 following his own infection.

Known as one of Trump’s so-called body men, Luna is the latest member of Trump’s inner circle of White House personnel to contract coronavirus. Hope Hicks, one of the president’s closest advisers, fell ill on Wednesday while traveling with Trump to Minnesota.

Luna, who runs Oval Office operations for the White House, accompanied Trump on his trip to Cleveland for the presidential debate on Tuesday and was also aboard Air Force One on the Minnesota trip when Hicks first began experiencing symptoms.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-04/trump-aide-luna-tests-positive-for-virus-in-new-white-house-case





and btw--his wife is an assistant for jared
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SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
1. How could Jarhead...
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 01:37 AM
Oct 2020

be around Hope Hicks all day, not to mention all of the other infected Trump sycophants, and remain COVID free? Just another of the curious discrepancies surrounding this "event".

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
11. The night is still young.
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 08:38 AM
Oct 2020

Incubation period 2-14 days.
Early during incubation period, tests might not pick up the virus.

herding cats

(19,564 posts)
7. Yep, pointing out how Trump spread the virus is such good press for him.
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 04:08 AM
Oct 2020

Shame on the media for dogging a story which points out how Trump denied science and infected those near him. All while trying to pretend an epidemic away so it wouldn't harm his re-election chances. Meanwhile Americans were dying to the tune of more than 200k, just to date.

Yep. That's the type of free publicity the MSM shouldn't be giving Trump.


If needed.

 

Thrax

(41 posts)
8. Biden campaign pulled "negative" ads
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 04:21 AM
Oct 2020

Seems like the time for ads pointing out just what you articulated...
Not this respect for a dumbass that infected himself.
His entourage.
The executive branch.
And, soon to come the Senate.
Seems like a national security threat to me.
Surprised he has not been removed.
Man, that might be a good point to make...

Trump's tax fraud ancient history.
Suckers and losers ancient history.
All Trump. All the time.
Stop getting played.


How 'bout some Biden on my TV and internet?

How 'bout some solutions shouted at me.

BumRushDaShow

(128,979 posts)
9. Where do you live?
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 07:23 AM
Oct 2020


The way they seem to do ad buys is most likely based on whether you are in a state that is a swing/battleground or not.

I haven't had the TV on for weeks until yesterday and literally saw this ad here in Philly that ran on MSNBC last evening -



And I was surprised to see that because it did focus on the other side of my state but I wouldn't call this some kind of a puff piece ad. I saw a different ad earlier in the day (I think on CNN) that also pounded on the pandemic.

The campaign raised $364 million just in the month of August. They have dozens and dozens of carefully target-marketed ads running across the country, apparently focusing on what was probably determined based on data gathered from surveys of the top issues important to people in each area they run the ad in. Here in Philly, most of the ads have focused on the botched COVID response. In other parts of my state, he has focused on the economy and manufacturing or farming. In still other places, there is a focus on "small businesses".

I.e., I am thinking that the "pulling the ads" announcement was a head-fake.

LogicFirst

(571 posts)
14. Arizona might be a toss up this year, so we are getting Biden and Trump ads every 7 minutes.
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 10:27 AM
Oct 2020

Oh - and McSally in full gear getting into a fighter jet. I wish she'd fly that plane right out of here.

Boomer

(4,168 posts)
10. Easing the cognitive dissonance
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 08:30 AM
Oct 2020

For those working around the president -- who would be mean to them if they wore a mask -- there was considerable emotional pressure to believe that coronavirus was a hoax, just like the flu, not something they had to worry about. If they acknowledged just how risky their own behavior was, they would have to confront a severely inconvenient conflict: wear a mask to stay safe or face Trump's displeasure.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
12. How many has he infected inside the WH?
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 09:32 AM
Oct 2020

100's of staffers who have to work to pay their bills and can't afford to lose one damn day of pay!!!!!

He and his family including the man with dead eyes Jarad are murderers.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
15. Working close to Chump every day and they're not allowed to wear masks
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 12:46 PM
Oct 2020

Hope Hicks is one of the few staffers who actually wore a mask at work, and she was constantly belittled for it. Look what it got her!

Not that I feel sorry for these WH staffers, they chose to work there. But nobody should be required to risk their life for the job they're doing!




tclambert

(11,086 posts)
16. I think this is a photo of Trump blowing Coronavirus into Nick Luna's earhole.
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 08:33 PM
Oct 2020
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