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Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests positive for Covid-19

“Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!!!” Trump tweeted yesterday.

US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has said that his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus.

The president confirmed in a tweet yesterday that the former New York mayor had tested positive.

The 76-year-old was was exhibiting some symptoms and was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Centre in Washington, sources said.

Giuliani has travelled extensively to battleground states in recent weeks in an effort to help Trump challenge his election defeat.

Trump wished him a speedy recovery.

“Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!!!” Trump wrote in his tweet.

Giuliani attended a hearing at the Georgia Capitol on Thursday where he went without a mask for several hours. Several state senators also did not wear masks at the hearing.

On Wednesday night, the lawyer was in Lansing, Michigan, to testify in a highly unusual four-hour legislative hearing in which he pushed Republican lawmakers to ignore the certification of Joe Biden’s Michigan victory and appoint electors for Trump.

He did not wear a mask, nor did lawyer Jenna Ellis, who was sitting next to him. At one point, he asked one of his witnesses — a Detroit election worker — if she would be comfortable removing her mask but legislators said they could hear her.

Before the hearing, Giuliani and Michigan Republican Party chairman Laura Cox — both maskless — did a virtual briefing for Republican activists.

Last Monday, Giuliani went to Phoenix where he met with Republican legislators for a lengthy hearing in which he was also maskless.

The Arizona Republican Party tweeted a photo of Giuliani and several state GOP lawmakers standing shoulder-to-shoulder without masks.

The Arizona legislature announced yesterday, after Giuliani’s diagnosis became public, that it would close for a week out of caution “for recent cases and concerns relating to Covid-19”.

Giuliani made an appearance earlier yesterday on Fox News to speak about his legal challenges in several states on behalf of Trump.

Late last night Giuliani tweeted that he was “getting great care and feeling good” and “recovering quickly”.

Two months on

The diagnosis comes more than a month after Trump lost his re-election bid and more than two months after Trump was ill with the virus in early October.

Since then, a flurry of administration officials and others in Trump’s orbit have also tested positive, including White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development.

Last month, Giuliani’s son, Andrew Giuliani, a special assistant to Trump, said he tested positive for coronavirus.

“I am experiencing mild symptoms, and am following all appropriate protocols, including being in quarantine and conducting contact tracing,” the younger Giuliani said in a tweet pm 20 November disclosing his Covid-19 positive test.

The extraordinary spread among Trump’s associates underscores the cavalier approach the president has taken to a virus that has now killed more than 280,000 people in the US alone.

Those infected also include the vice president, his chief of staff, the White House press secretary, advisers Hope Hicks and Stephen Miller, as well as Trump’s campaign manager and the chair of the Republican National Committee.

White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr Deborah Birx on Sunday offered tacit criticism of Trump’s attitude on the virus during an interview on NBC.

Asked about Trump and other administration members flouting public health experts’ warnings to avoid large gatherings and calls to wear masks, Dr Birx replied that some leaders are “parroting” myths and called the pandemic “the worst event that this country will face”.

“And I think our job is to constantly say those are myths, they are wrong and you can see the evidence-base,” Dr Birx added.

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    Mute Thomas Quinn
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    Dec 7th 2020, 7:38 AM

    The poor virus. I hope it’s ok

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    Mute Joe Johnson
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    Dec 7th 2020, 9:24 AM

    @Thomas Quinn: Yea it was pouring out of his hair

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    Mute Simon Connolly
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    Dec 7th 2020, 9:07 AM

    Headline should read: “Covid-19 tests positive for Guiliani”!

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    Dec 7th 2020, 9:02 AM

    Thoughts and prayers for the virus.

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    Mute John Mulligan
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    Dec 7th 2020, 8:58 AM

    Hope he doesn’t dye.

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    Mute Ger
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    Dec 7th 2020, 10:02 AM

    Don’t worry. He’ll get excellent treatment at Walter Reed Landscape and Gardening

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    Mute geraldo
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    Dec 7th 2020, 7:15 AM

    Should look for a recount

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    Mute Optimus Prime
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    Dec 7th 2020, 7:00 AM

    Keep up guys… This was yesterday’s news.

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    Mute D Mems
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    Dec 7th 2020, 7:29 AM

    @Optimus Prime: in fairness, they did report on it yesterday, they’ve republished it with more commentary and element of the tacit criticism. Perhaps you need to keep up also?

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    Dec 7th 2020, 7:45 AM

    @D Mems: at this rate it is hard to keep up with the badly scripted reality TV drama we’ve been watching. I’ll do my best to keep up with the journals reportage.

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    Dec 7th 2020, 8:24 AM

    Interesting , when he had that sweating issue causing his hair dye to run , I wondered if he had been infected.
    If so, he may be very ill now.

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    Dec 7th 2020, 7:20 AM

    How long before the virus runs away?

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    Dec 7th 2020, 7:41 AM

    @David O Brien: Will he get the same degree of attention that Trump got?

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    Dec 7th 2020, 7:45 AM

    @Niall O: I doubt it

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    Mute Dave Thomas
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    Dec 7th 2020, 9:30 AM

    @Niall O: of course he did. They all get top quality tax payer funded health care! Apparently socialism ain’t bad when it works just for yourself!

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    Dec 7th 2020, 9:13 AM

    At least we won’t have to endure him embarrassing himself and his country for the foreseeable future?

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    Dec 7th 2020, 9:46 AM

    @Paul Shepherd: you obviously haven’t seen Borat 2.

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    Dec 7th 2020, 11:04 AM

    @Ann Neylan: yes, I should have added…..yet again!

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    Dec 7th 2020, 9:40 AM

    Our thoughts & prayers are with the Coronavirus during this difficult time with Rudy Giuliani.

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    Dec 7th 2020, 7:59 AM

    He’ll probably get fired by trump for having corona virus

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    Dec 7th 2020, 7:43 AM

    hope its nothing trivial

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    Dec 7th 2020, 8:10 AM

    Not really surprised after seeing his hygiene at one of his traincrash press conferences where he was rubbing a snot covered handkerchief all over his mouth and face

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    Dec 7th 2020, 9:01 AM

    @Irish Sean: Sean you’re after putting meit off my porridge

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    Dec 7th 2020, 10:23 AM

    karma,anyone?

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    Dec 7th 2020, 9:24 AM

    Couldn’t happen to a nice person.

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    Mute Micheal S. O' Ceilleachair
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    Dec 7th 2020, 9:00 AM

    Trump’s medicine might work on Jiuliani too.

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    Dec 7th 2020, 1:03 PM

    My sympathies to the virus.

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    Dec 7th 2020, 3:01 PM

    How can there be anything “Positive” about Giuliana

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    Dec 7th 2020, 5:51 PM

    His son git it, he works in the White House, he is the offical golf partner of the election loser.

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    Dec 7th 2020, 4:39 PM

    He’s as evil as trump

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    Dec 8th 2020, 7:43 AM

    I’m so shocked by this

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