The outbreak of COVID-19 currently plaguing (excuse the phrase) the Republican Party continues today, as White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has announced she has tested positive for the virus.
“After testing negative consistently, including every day since Thursday, I tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning while experiencing no symptoms,” McEnany said via Twitter. “No reporters, producers, or members of the press are listed as close contacts by the White House Medical Unit.”
— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) October 5, 2020
“Moreover I definitively had no knowledge of Hope Hicks’ diagnosis prior to holding a White House press briefing on Thursday,” she added.
McEnany has said she will begin the quarantine process and have her health monitored by doctors. She also plans to continue work, holding press briefings from remote locations.
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Press Secretary McEnany’s announcement drew immediate backlash, as she had continued to meet with and brief reporters face-to-face while not wearing a mask, thus exposing said press to the virus. CNBC reports that at least three reporters to have visited the White House over the weekend have also tested positive for COVID-19.
McEnany’s announcement makes her the latest in a series of high-ranking Republicans to have contracted COVID-19 in the past few days. The current list includes Donald and Melania Trump, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Senators Mike Lee of Utah, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, and Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson, Trump’s personal assistant Nick Luna, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, and Trump advisors Kellyanne Conway & Hope Hicks. Attorney General Bill Barr also continues to undergo quarantine procedures following his exposure during the nomination ceremony of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
Speculation in the media has centered on Hicks as the “Patient Zero” of this recent outbreak, and the likelihood that all of the aforementioned political figures were exposed during Coney Barrett’s nomination ceremony where few attendees wore masks and no social distancing protocols were followed.
Roy Moss
Hopefully she’ll soon be greeting Herman in Hell. They can chat about the hoax that put them there.
Max
she’s still a liar. particularly on the “…to provide information to the American people…”
I’m sure she’s quarantined right now trying to write her best spin on this.
Cam
She lied to the American people helping to kill 210,000 people and mocked precautionary measures. I have very little sympathy for people that jump into a pool then want sympathy because they got wet.
Mister P
The lies she has told herself are going to be the most damaging for her personally.
Kangol2
Superspreader McEnaney says what?
And now Don the Breathless Con is forcing his quack doctors to release his lazy, treasonous radioactive @ss back into the White House!
This monstrous Con man has presided over an un-reality sh!tshow from start to finish.
Wolfwalk
As her Master’s Handmaid told us all “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?”
James
I TESTED NEGATIVE FOR SYMPATHY. FUK HER.
Heywood Jablowme
Didn’t realize a blow-up doll could get Covid!
wasabe
Wishing you a speedy recovery Kayleigh ! Thank you for your service to the nation .
Den
Last I looked telling lies in service to a corrupt would be ruler is not in any way a “service to our nation”.
Please enlighten us to any good she has done for anybody but herself (her bank account at least, certainly not to her future employability) and her master.
Cam
You don’t serve people by stealing their money and lying to them.
James
WHAT SERVICE TO THE NATION. LYING HAG.
amanwithanedge
mama always said, “THE LAWD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.” Thank ya Jesus.
IndependentForever
I don’t give a damn how attractive a person is on the outside. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but let’s admit guys she is attractive. However, that she can, day in day out, stand there and lie for this evil president and do it with a straight face makes her a despicable, vile, and ugly lump of flesh.
Now, is it just me or doesn’t she resemble Ivanka? How scary is that? I mean, the sicko president that always has had a strange attraction to his own daughter, and is perv besides, hires a look-alike press secretary.
James
OH PLEASE. I THINK SHE IS UGLY. IF YOU LIKE VACUOUS SHALLOW LYING LOSERS THEN YOU CAN HAVE THAT IDIOT.
Jack Meoff
She must have contracted it while servicing the president
Matthewnow
Somebody move the couch I wanna do a cartwheel. I’m so devastated I c*nt gain my composure. CARTWHEEL time!!