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UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 08:13 AM Mar 2020

Australian official who met with Ivanka, AG Barr last week tests positive for coronavirus

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — An Australian government official who met last week with President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and Attorney William General William Barr and other Trump aides has tested positive for the coronavirus.

“This morning I woke up with a temperature and sore throat," Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said in a statement on Twitter on Friday morning. "I immediately contacted the Queensland Department of Health and was subsequently tested for COVID-19. I was advised by Queensland Health this afternoon that the test had returned positive.”

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Dutton’s positive test comes nine days after he said he met with Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, Barr and other officials during a trip to the U.S. A day after the meeting, Dutton posted a photo on Twitter showing him standing with them and with Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1157636



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Australian official who met with Ivanka, AG Barr last week tests positive for coronavirus (Original Post) UpInArms Mar 2020 OP
K&R. Karma is a bitch. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2020 #1
Indeed. nt iluvtennis Mar 2020 #4
Oh my Leghorn21 Mar 2020 #2
hmmmmmmm LPBBEAR Mar 2020 #3
Good point Bayard Mar 2020 #5
+1 dalton99a Mar 2020 #6
Karma has quite a sense of humor this week. Ha-ha! kysrsoze Mar 2020 #7
+ 1000 n/t MFGsunny Mar 2020 #8

Leghorn21

(13,523 posts)
2. Oh my
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 08:46 AM
Mar 2020

And Kellyanne too?

Oh my

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Dutton is just about touching the princess, standing directly to her left:

LPBBEAR

(295 posts)
3. hmmmmmmm
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:58 AM
Mar 2020

Why does the article assume that the Australian might have possibly infected Breathy Barbie and Deputy Droopy?

Couldn't it have gone the other way?

Seen those 2 in the news lately?

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