President Donald Trump said Sunday his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Donald Trump wrote in a tweet: “Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!”
Mr Giuliani, who has led the Trump campaign’s legal challenges to the election results, is the latest person close to the president to be infected.
The 76-year-old former New York mayor has travelled extensively to battleground states in recent days and weeks in an effort to help Trump subvert his election loss.
On numerous occasions, he has met with officials for hours at a time without wearing a mask.
He was admitted to the Medstar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington DC on Sunday, according to US media reports.
On Wednesday night, Giuliani was in Lansing, Michigan, to testify in a highly unusual 4 1/2-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.
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Georgia state Sen. Jen Jordan, a Democrat who attended Thursday’s hearing, expressed outrage after learning of Giuliani’s diagnosis.
“Little did I know that most credible death threat that I encountered last week was Trump’s own lawyer,” Jordan tweeted.
“Giuliani went maskless, in a packed hearing room for 7 hours. To say I am livid would be too kind.”
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