Donald Trump is infected with the corona virus.
After his return to the White House, many employees are now staying at home, as he is still contagious.
But who is already part of the Corona cluster?
On
Friday afternoon (October 2) it
became known:
US President Donald Trump *
and his wife Melania were
infected
with the
corona
virus
*
.
On
Monday evening (October 5)
, Trump returned to the
White House
from the hospital
, although he is said to be still infectious.
Now more and more
infections are known
from his
circle of contacts
.
This
news ticker
is updated regularly.
Update from October 7th, 9:50 p.m.: US President Trump
stopped a corona aid package by tweet - the share prices promptly crashed.
According to the
New York Times,
some White House employees now suspect that
Trump's
strange behavior is related to his drug cocktail.
The leading Democrat Nancy Pelosi also apparently made a similar statement in an internal conversation, as
USA Today
reports.
To treat the
corona infection
, he apparently takes a steroid that
causes
mood swings
and can trigger deceptive energy surges and euphoria.
In the comments to a tweet from Wednesday evening, the suspicion arises that the drugs are affecting
Trump's
state of mind.
"Bringing up old conspiracy theories from 2.5 years ago ... the roid rage has now definitely reached its peak," writes a follower.
"Roid Rage" is the name for the increased aggressiveness after consuming anabolic steroids.
With the
tweet
,
Trump
shared an amateurishly designed video from a Twitter user named @AMErikaNGIRLLL, alleging that the FBI, NSA and CIA
spied on
Trump
and tried
to undermine
his
election victory
with falsified results.
Wow!!!
NOW DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, THE BIGGEST OF ALL POLITICAL SCANDALS (IN HISTORY) !!!
BIDEN, OBAMA AND CROOKED HILLARY LED THIS TREASONOUS PLOT !!!
BIDEN SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO RUN - GOT CAUGHT !!!
https://t.co/hf7zjqZYQ4
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2020
Update October 7, 21:30:
The
coronavirus
ill
US President Donald Trump
had, according to his doctor in the past 24 hours any symptoms.
The
president has
not had a fever
for four days
, said his personal physician Sean Conley on Wednesday.
"I feel great," said the
president,
according to Conley, in the morning.
The
breathing rate
and oxygen saturation of the
president
are in the normal range and are stable, as the personal doctor announced at a short press conference on
Trump's
condition
.
Trump
had promised his supporters that he would soon resume the election campaign and take part in the second
presidential debate
against the Democrat
Joe Biden
on October 15 in Miami.
Trump has Corona: White House refrains from tracing contacts
Washington - The
US president
announced
on Friday
that he was
infected
with the
corona
virus - five days later it is still considered contagious.
However, that
didn't
stop
Donald Trump
from
returning
to the
White House
on Monday
after a weekend at
Walter Reed Military Hospital
.
As the
New York Times
reports, the
government
largely refrained from tracking the
infection
situation around the
president
and
adequately informing
all those people with whom
Trump was
in contact
up to two weeks before the
positive test result
.
There
is also still no
cooperation with the
health department
here.
Trump spokeswoman: Corona outbreak in the White House
The
so-called
“White House Cluster”
is now being
talked about more
and more often in the
US media
- more and more infections are becoming known within the government and Trump's staff.
Even
Trump's spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany
admitted now one: "It is obvious that there is an outbreak in
the White House
was." High-ranking generals, as chief of staff
Mark Milley
, working now officially in the home office because it at a meeting with Trump the
coronavirus
have been exposed could.
Others take precautions on their own initiative.
+
US President Donald Trump and Judge Amy Coney Barrett speak at a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House.
The event on September 26th is suspected to have been a "superspreader" event.
© Alex Brandon / AP / Picture Alliance
While Trump himself tweets as if nothing had happened and continues to campaign *, an
insider describes
the
atmosphere in the White House
since the president's return
as "chaotic"
according to a
CNN report
.
The virus is spreading in the
US government
and the White House: Another close
advisor to Trump, Stephen Miller
, tested positive for the
corona
virus
on Tuesday
.
Because of the numerous infected employees, the
west wing of the White House is
now almost empty, which is why
temporary
office space has been
set up
here for
Trump
- in the immediate vicinity of medical care.
"White House Cluster": Whoever has infected everything besides Trump
Many employees of the
US President
now apparently prefer
to work from home out
of
self-protection
.
Since he has been in charge again,
White House employees have been
talking
about a "total mess," as
CNN
reports.
According to the news channel, the
contact tracing in the White House
is said to have been more than chaotic
.
On Tuesday, the contact investigation was declared as "completed" by email to all employees.
However, various employees, journalists and politicians report - despite
direct contact with the US President
- that they have not yet been
notified and informed
by the
White House
.
So not only is it unclear who the
US president
infected
with the
corona
virus, but also where he could have
caught
the
infection
.
More and more voices are being raised that
Donald Trump
had a positive result much earlier
knew - and still
attended election campaigns and private appointments
across the country.
Not only the event for the presentation of Trump's candidate for the Supreme Court,
Amy Coney Barrett
, in the
rose garden of the White House
on
September 26th
is moving
into the public eye
as a possible
contagion cluster
, but also numerous other, sometimes smaller, festivities that the president is hosting during the incubation period *.
Thirteen employees at a restaurant in Minneapolis are in quarantine after catering a party attended by President Trump on September 30 https://t.co/79wwxrLrv4 pic.twitter.com/3V6zC0MF9t
- CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 6, 2020
CNN
reported
on Wednesday of
thirteen employees at
a restaurant in
Minneapolis
who are currently
said to be
in
quarantine
- after they
waited
on
September 30
at a party that the
US President also
attended.
Although none of them got
too close to
Trump
, everyone is now
being tested
for the
corona
virus, according to Chuck Sanger, spokesman for
"Murray's"
in
Minneapolis
.
(
cos
) *
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