US President Donald Trump is going into quarantine after his advisor Hope Hicks tested positive for the corona virus on Friday. Trump’s wife Melania is also quarantined.
After the infection of Hicks, Trump himself was also tested. The results should arrive on Friday. At first, Trump said he didn’t know if he would be quarantined, but then he announced on Twitter that he was getting ready for this.
In an interview with Fox News Trump says he and his wife have both been in close contact with Hicks. Hicks went to the presidential debate between Trump and Joe Biden on Tuesday evening.
She often travels with the president on the Air Force One plane. So it is also possible that Hicks has infected other people close to Trump.
The advisor is not the first Trump employee to be infected with the virus. In July, his national security adviser Robert O’Brien tested positive for the coronavirus. Two months earlier, Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary, was found to be infected.
Hicks was on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign team and then served as an adviser and communications director at the White House. In 2019, Hicks quit her job and went to work in the private sector, but returned to Washington earlier this year.
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