White House Quietly Told Vets Group It Might Have Exposed Them to COVID
Source: The Daily Beast
On the same day President Trump acknowledged contracting the coronavirus, the White House quietly informed a veterans group that there was a COVID-19 risk stemming from a Sept. 27 event honoring the families of fallen U.S. service members, the head of that charitable organization told The Daily Beast.
The White House warning, which came on Oct. 2, is the earliest known outreach to visitors of the complex that there was a risk of coronavirus emerging from the grounds where the president, the first lady, and at least 17 of his aides, according to Politico, have now tested positive for the virus.
The Sept. 27 event to honor Gold Star families came the day after the White House hosted a celebration for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett that appears to have been an early source of the White House outbreak, though West Wing officials have quietly disputed that linkage. It is unclear to the head of the veterans charitythe Greatest Generations Foundationwhich participant's potential positive coronavirus test sparked the warning.
The White House has been in daily contact with TGGF for contact-tracing purposes after alerting us on 10/2 of a possible COVID-positive person at the event so we could know there was a potential our attendees were exposed, said the Greatest Generations Foundations president and CEO, Timothy Davis.
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Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)sense of human decency.
How sad is that, really?
Shermann
(7,428 posts)...in the same way I was SHOCKED to learn last month that Trump intentionally downplayed the threat of coronavirus.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)And exposed all of those people around him to it? Less than 30 days before he claims a vaccine will be ready? The man is nuts.
Cha
(297,655 posts)58Sunliner
(4,398 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Trump's pre-spin seems to blame military, police interactions for coronavirus diagnosis
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klook
(12,165 posts)Theyre always coming up, throwing their arms around him, crying and slobbering all over his face.