Trump has coronavirus – Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were with him this week
Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive and will begin quarantining. Several Jewish White House officials are among those who may now also be infected.
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 and would begin quarantining.
Several prominent Jewish White House officials are among the many people close to the president who could have been exposed to the deadly virus this week.
Trump’s announcement — which threatens to throw an already tumultuous campaign season into further disarray — came hours after news broke that Trump advisor Hope Hicks had tested positive. She began to show symptoms on Wednesday while travelling with Trump to a rally in Minnesota.
People with COVID-19 can transmit the disease before showing symptoms and may actually be most contagious during that time, according to researchers. That would put anyone who was in contact with Hicks or Trump earlier this week at risk.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor, also travelled to the Minnesota rally; he and Hicks also flew that day on Marine One with Stephen Miller, another Jewish senior adviser. Photographs show none of them wearing a mask.
On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser, who is Jewish, was among the Trump family members in the audience at the presidential debate in Cleveland. According to media reports, she wore a mask when entering and existing the auditorium but not during the debate.
Trump’s announcement raises questions about whether Vice President Joe Biden, who is running against him and ahead in the polls, could have been put at risk during Tuesday’s debate. It also comes after Trump faced criticism for his behaviour during the debate, which included not condemning white supremacists when invited to do so, and amid ongoing criticism about his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which so far has killed more than 200,000 Americans.
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