Billionaire GOP Donors Contract COVID-19
The Uihleins, who have opposed public health guidelines, tested positive after attending the White House election eve watch party.
by Melanie Conklin
November 13, 2020
Elizabeth and Richard Uihlein (Screenshot from The New York Times YouTube video "Meet the Billionaire Couple Trying to Reshape the Republican Party" )
Trump megadonors Liz and Dick Uihlein, owners of Uline shipping and outspoken opponents of COVID-19 prevention measures, have tested positive for the virus after attending an election night party at the White House.
Earlier this year, Liz Uihlein called the pandemic “overhyped,” lobbied legislators to overturn Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers’s public health restrictions, and backed a petition to have Evers removed from office. A rare (and brief) interview with The Guardian on April 23 introduced Uihlein by stating:
“One of Donald Trump’s most fervent billionaire donors is lobbying against strict stay-at-home rules in the election battleground state of Wisconsin, raising troubling new questions about how the president’s rightwing financial supporters may influence the U.S. response to the pandemic.”
A family friend accidentally linked the Uihleins to Wisconsin’s reopen protests in a separate Guardian interview.
The couple were tested for the coronavirus after saying they were around others who contracted the virus, according to an email sent to employees of Uline that was obtained by Patch. The New York Times tweeted Thursday that Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski, who was also at that party, tested positive and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, political director Brian Jack, and others in the administration also tested positive after attending the party.
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