Vice President Mike Pence staffer tests positive for coronavirus
Source: CNBC
Vice President Mike Pence staffer tests positive for coronavirus
PUBLISHED FRI, MAY 8 202011:25 AM EDT UPDATED 16 MIN AGO
Christina Wilkie
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KEY POINTS
-- An aide to Vice President Mike Pence has tested positive for coronavirus.
-- The confirmation came one day after news that President Donald Trumps personal valet had also tested positive.
WASHINGTON An aide to Vice President Mike Pence has tested positive for coronavirus, a senior administration official confirmed to NBC News on Friday.
The confirmation comes a day after news broke that President Donald Trumps personal valet had also tested positive.
A spokeswoman for Pence did not immediately respond to CNBCs request for comment.
Pence was scheduled to travel to Des Moines, Iowa, in the morning, but his departure from Andrews Air Force Base was delayed by nearly an hour as staff dealt with news of the diagnosis. Reporters traveling with Pence said several staffers disembarked from Air Force Two just before takeoff.
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Squinch
(50,949 posts)sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)nt
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)catbyte
(34,386 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)fan the virus. Also, the virus is mutating, one has to wonder if current testing may be obsolete.
Individual states should have their own testing since the effed up asshole government won't supply them anymore.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Hoo-boy.......
H2O Man
(73,537 posts)If this news continues to spread, people may be tempted to start dancing with wild abdom with wild abdomen. Liquor and pot stocks may soar. But we must remember to wear masks and keep six feet apart.
Lonestarblue
(9,988 posts)Pence and Trump with the virus.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)I'm surprised news like this got out. red don of course threw a big tantrum so harder to suppress his valet's test result but punce is more controlled.
cp
(6,628 posts)Yeah, I know. It is medical protocol nevertheless.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)......make WH start requiring everyone to mask. Even the prima-donnas.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)what would he do if no one came, and then mr. muscle that picked up empty boxes in Virginia, is jetting off to Iowa...............
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Submariner
(12,504 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)The Liar Tweets Tonight!
Yeehah
(4,587 posts)Just to be safe.
(Trumpie's miracle cure)
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)It's all a HOAX............right Donnie??
Kali
(55,008 posts)did I laugh out loud?
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)All the cons staff and mothers son should follow protocol, but of course they wont.
Talitha
(6,589 posts)still_one
(92,190 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Last edited Fri May 8, 2020, 05:30 PM - Edit history (1)
Maybe Adolf and Eva will pass away in each other's arms.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,985 posts)Both him and Trump have aids with COVID-19.
I'd like to think this might make both of them rethink easing the rules but I'm not optimistic.
demmiblue
(36,851 posts)Miller's positive diagnosis for Covid-19 puts the potential threat of the infection squarely into the presidents inner circle. Miller serves as the vice presidents top spokesperson, traveling with him frequently and attending meetings by his side. She is also married to another top White House aide and senior adviser, Stephen Miller, who writes the majority of Trumps speeches and spends copious amounts of time around the president, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Katie Millers positive diagnosis raises the risk that, through both her and her husbands daily work, a large swath of the West Wings senior aides may also have been exposed to the novel coronavirus. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany earlier on Friday confirmed that a member of the vice presidents team had tested positive for coronavirus just one day after one of President Donald Trump's personal valets contracted the illness although did not specify who the person was.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/08/mike-pence-staffer-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-244816
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)Do these utter MORONS not understand that they could be walking carriers, spreading the virus and possibly DEATH by continuing to visit areas rather than err on the side of caution and sit their asses down and wait to see if they get sick!
People are dying - i just want to scream at these idiots, they truly do not care!!! I don't care if they get tested every day - they can have it and not show as positive, but of course that is a fact and we know how they feel about truth and facts.
When will our country have normalcy again? When will we have intelligence again? Seriously - the GOP who are running things - even if they are not stupid - they ACT so stupid that they will be forever labeled as such. Stupid, ignorant, greedy, hateful. I can't think of one redeeming quality - they are all bottom of the barrell.
November - time - please speed up.
Rae
(84 posts)No further comment.
coeur_de_lion
(3,676 posts)Vice President Mike Pence tests positive for coronavirus