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This is Donald Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
On Wednesday, Meadows tested positive for the coronavirus, according to several US media outlets.
These recordings show Meadows on election night, i.e. the night before, in the White House at an election party.
He does not wear a mask, nor do the rules of distance seem to apply.
250 people were invited to the election party.
A few hours earlier, Meadows attended a press conference hosted by Donald Trump on election day.
Here, too, he kept no distance from others and did not wear a mask.
According to the New York Times, four other people who work in the White House were infected in addition to Meadows.
He has already demonstrated that Trump's chief of staff is not particularly keen on wearing a mask, as here after the nomination of Supreme Court judge Amy Coney Barrett when he was asked for an interview by reporters.
Mark Meadows, White House Chief of Staff:
"I'll tell you something, let me drag this (mic) over here and then I can take this off to talk." Reporter: "No!" Mark Meadows: "Well, I'm more than ten feet away! ... Well, I'm not going to talk to you with a mask!"
The corona measures and the tracking of infection chains in the White House were sharply criticized after the infection of Donald Trump, who had to be treated in the hospital.
Trump's challenger Joe Biden accuses the president of failure in the corona crisis.
Tens of thousands of infections could be traced back to Trump's election campaign events, according to research.
Most recently, more than 125,000 new infections were detected within one day in the USA.
In the past few days, more than 1,000 people died every day in the United States.
In total, the death toll is more than 236,000.
