Hope Hicks’ maskless travel on Air Force One triggers speculation of White House outbreak
White House aide Hope Hicks has tested positive for COVID-19 after traveling with President Donald Trump, according to multiple reports on Tuesday.
Hicks traveled aboard Air Force One with President Donald Trump to Minnesota and Ohio this week.
The news was first reported by Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs and was confirmed by New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman.
“Some people close to Hicks were told that she is experiencing symptoms of the disease,” Bloomberg reported.
Here’s some of what people were saying about the reports:
Close Trump aide Hope Hicks traveled aboard Air Force One Tuesday. Here she is deplaning in Cleveland, without a mask. pic.twitter.com/pyegkSxChI
— Monica Alba (@albamonica) October 2, 2020
White House works to limit COVID-19 exposure “to the greatest extent possible” both on complex and when the president is traveling, spokesman Judd Deere says in a statement, without mentioning by name the aide who has coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/N0uA6wlyzs
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/lindyli/status/1311823460415528960
Tuesday: Hope Hicks not wearing a mask ahead of the presidential debate. @JenniferJJacobs reports she has tested positive for COVID-19. https://t.co/Db2PhDUyr9
— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) October 2, 2020
Holy Crap!
"We've had no problems with our rallies!" – Donald Trumphttps://t.co/ZRR5PT6uAB
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) October 2, 2020
Here in this video posted by Dan Scavino on Saturday night from a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, is Hope Hicks, not wearing a mask, with other Trump aides also not wearing masks, not far from the crowd: https://t.co/J79vhIR0Lq pic.twitter.com/u0x1QAOSxe
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) October 2, 2020
Hope Hicks leaving her White House job and then coming back only to contract coronavirus is some kinda something. https://t.co/86MhQBYWwW
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 2, 2020
No mask for Hope Hicks getting on Marine One yesterday pic.twitter.com/sqdALCMZf2
— Jeff Landset (@JeffLandset) October 2, 2020
Hope Hicks has coronavirus and has spent all week with Trump. https://t.co/nFv4gnRXZm
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 2, 2020
Since Trump was exposed to Hope Hicks who tested positive for COVID, is he going to cancel rallies/events to self-isolate as the guidelines would tell him to do, or will he continue public events with people needed to travel around him?
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) October 2, 2020
Hope Hicks has tested positive for the virus she helped Donald Trump spread.
— Tommy Campbell (@MrTommyCampbell) October 2, 2020
Donald Trump and everyone else who has been in close proximity to Hope Hicks should now quarantine.
— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) October 2, 2020
Hope Hicks was maskless next to the president for much of the day, apparently https://t.co/v4iW6pQ12r
— Josie Ensor (@Josiensor) October 2, 2020
Few in the WhiteHouse are closer to President Trump than Hope Hicks, a top aide who has tested positive for coronavirus. She regularly travels with Trump, like she did to Cleveland this week and again yesterday. Here she is boarding Marine One with Kushner and others yesterday. pic.twitter.com/XMd86C6pwh
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 2, 2020
Hope Hicks has tested positive for coronavirus.
In a normal world, any responsible leader would stop holding rallies and tell people to wear masks in the middle of a pandemic that has already infected several of his staff members and killed one of his most famous supporters. https://t.co/Ie6wd2gtP7
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) October 2, 2020
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Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department banned from the building: report
The Associated Press reported Thursday that President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department was barred from entering the building.
The report revealed that Heidi Stirrup, "an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller," was pressuring Justice Department staff to hand over sensitive documents and information about alleged "election fraud" and other issues that are important to Trump.
Attorney General Bill Barr told the AP on Tuesday that there was no widespread election fraud or voter fraud, as Trump has claimed for the past several weeks since losing the 2020 election. Trump alleged that Barr “hasn’t looked very hard."
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Obama says some Black men are persuaded by Trump’s ‘macho’ bravado bragging about women and money
In part two of the SnapChat interview with President Barack Obama, Peter Hamby asked how President Donald Trump was able to persuade so many Black men to support him over President-elect Joe Biden.
When Obama was elected he got about 95 percent of the Black vote, where Biden got about 80 percent.
"Well, look, I think men, generally, are more susceptible to public figures who act tough, sort of the stereotypical macho style," Obama said, while videos of Trump showing off his flabby muscles appeared. "I don't think Black men are immune to that any more than White or Hispanic men are. A lot of the values of pop culture are extolling wealth, power, frankly, greed, not thinking about other people because you're so ruthless you're just looking out for yourself."
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"Georgia Republicans don’t mind when Trump lies about the integrity of their elections in a way that they think will help them," he writes. "They only mind when Trump lies about the integrity of their elections in a way that threatens to harm them."
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