USA: At a meeting with Trump, the politician learned that he was infected

Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator from Pennsylvania who attended a meeting with US President Donald Trump on November 25, learned during the meeting that he was infected with the coronavirus. The SARS-CoV-2 test was performed when he arrived at the White House. The politician immediately left the meeting – reports the AP agency.

Donald Trump assured Mastriano on his departure that the White House medical services would provide him with all the assistance he needed.

Before meeting President Mastriano, he attended a four-hour meeting in Gettysburg devoted to a strategy to challenge Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the Pennsylvania presidential election. During this meeting – as the Associated Press emphasizes – Mastriano performed without a mask. Other participants in the conference also did not wear them: Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, numerous election observers and witnesses to the irregularities that Trump’s staff found in Pennsylvania.

The tests carried out on Wednesday as soon as the meeting participants showed up at the White House were also positive for Mastriano’s son and his friend. “The three of them left the oval office hurriedly. The meeting continued for half an hour without their participation,” reported AP.

The agency recalls that the total number of coronavirus infections in the United States exceeds 13.37 million, and 266,838 people have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the epidemic.

Some employees of the presidential administration were infected with the coronavirus, as well as Trump himself, who therefore spent several days in the Walter Reed military hospital near Washington in early October. The American leader has survived the coronavirus infection without any immediate consequences for his health. The infection was also confirmed in the case of his wife and two sons.

Everyone who appears in the president’s immediate vicinity is subjected to a quick coronavirus test – reports AP. However, the information about the test results was released only when everyone was already in the oval surgery.

Dave Argall, who chaired the Republican political committee in the Pennsylvania Senate, declined to comment on the Mastriano infection “because of conflicting information surrounding the case.” Speaking to the Associated Press, he added that he “expects a Senate communiqué to help us understand the situation better.”

A spokeswoman for the Republican majority in the US Senate, Kate Flessner declined to comment, noting that “the matter is private.”

A witness who told the PA that Mastriano was infected – notorious for his criticism of Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf’s overly restrictive and business-damaging epidemiological policy – claims that “all participants in the Gettysburg meeting arrived in Washington by minibus, but Mastriano and his son from with a friend they traveled in their own car. “

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who had COVID-19 in early November, also attended the meeting of the Gettysburg group with President Trump.

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