Top Trump aide defends the president’s decision to travel to a campaign fundraiser last week after learning that another top aide had tested positive for Covid-19.
WASHINGTON — A top aide to President Donald Trump defended the president’s decision to travel to a campaign fundraiser last week after learning that another top aide had tested positive for Covid-19 — a trip that came hours before Trump learned that he hadJason Miller, the Trump campaign’s senior adviser, told “Meet the Press” that Trump still traveled to the fundraiser at his New Jersey golf club because he and those around him are regularly tested for coronavirus, and at that point, the...
“But again, the president did not have a positive test yet," Miller said."As soon as he did have a positive test, they of course went to a different level of protocol.” “I’ll let both White House operations and the White House medical unit speak to the exact particulars,” Miller said when again pressed on that CDC guidance, pointing to the protocol that requires the president and those coming into contact with him to be tested for the virus.
But he pointed out that even those protocols aimed at protecting the president could not spare him from contracting the virus.
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