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u.s. news Diamars 8 December 2020

Trump lawyer Giuliani in hospital after positive virus test

(AP) — President Donald of Giuliani’s diagnosis. can National Committee.
Trump says his personal “Little did I know that most Trump spent the waning days
attorney Rudy Giuliani credible death threat that I of his campaign trying to per-
has tested positive for the encountered last week was suade the American public
coronavirus, making him Trump’s own lawyer,” Jordan that the virus was receding,
the latest in Trump’s in- tweeted. “Giuliani — mask- and he repeatedly claimed it
ner circle to contract the less, in packed hearing room would miraculously “disap-
disease that is now surg- for 7 hours. To say I am livid pear” after Nov. 3. Instead,
ing across the U.S. would be too kind.” the country is experiencing a
Before the hearing, Giuliani record-breaking spike in in-
Giuliani was exhibiting some and Michigan Republican fections.
symptoms and was admit- Party Chairman Laura Cox The president gave the
ted Sunday to Georgetown — both maskless — did a vir- mounting coronavirus death
University Medical Center tual briefing for GOP activ- toll scant attention at a Sat-
in Washington, according to a ists. urday evening rally in Val-
person familiar with the mat- dosta, Georgia, where he
ter who was not authorized liani was in Lansing, Michi- his visits to Arizona, Michi- Giuliani made an appearance campaigned on behalf of
to speak publicly. gan, to testify in a highly un- gan and Georgia. Unidenti- earlier Sunday on Fox News Republican Sens. Kelly Loef-
The 76-year-old former New usual 4 1/2-hour legislative fied Trump team members Channel’s “Sunday Morn- fler and David Perdue ahead
York mayor has traveled ex- hearing in which he pushed who had close contact with ing Futures” to speak about of next month’s runoff elec-
tensively to battleground Republican lawmakers to Giuliani are in self-isolation. his legal challenges in several tion there. Most people who
states in an effort to help ignore the certification of “The Mayor did not experi- states on behalf of Trump. attended the outdoor rally
Trump subvert his election Biden’s Michigan victory and ence any symptoms or test The diagnosis comes more did not wear masks.
loss to Joe Biden. On nu- appoint electors for Trump. positive for COVID-19 un- than a month after Trump White House coronavi-
merous occasions he has met He did not wear a mask, nor til more than 48 hours after lost reelection and more than rus task force coordinator
with officials for hours at a did lawyer Jenna Ellis, who his return,” according to the two months after Trump Dr. Deborah Birx on Sun-
time without wearing a mask. was sitting next to him. He statement. “No legislators in himself was stricken with the day offered tacit criticism of
Trump, who announced Gi- asked one of his witnesses, any state or members of the virus in early October. Since Trump’s attitude on the vi-
uliani’s positive test in a Sun- a Detroit election worker, if press are on the contact trac- then, a flurry of administra- rus during an interview on
day afternoon tweet, wished she would be comfortable re- ing list, under current CDC tion officials and others in NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
him a speedy recovery. The moving her mask, but legisla- Guidelines.” Trump’s orbit have also been Asked about Trump and oth-
president later told reporters tors said they could hear her. Giuliani also appeared mask- sickened, including White er administration members
he spoke with Giuliani on Giuliani traveled on Monday less at a Nov. 25 hearing in House chief of staff Mark flouting public health ex-
Monday. to Phoenix, where he met Pennsylvania. And he did not Meadows and Ben Carson, perts’ warnings to avoid large
“Rudy’s doing very well,” with Republican legislators quarantine after being near the secretary of housing and gatherings and calls to wear
Trump said. “I just spoke to for an hourslong hearing in an infected person at a Nov. urban development. The masks, Birx replied that some
him. No temperature.” which he was maskless. The 19 news conference at the president’s wife, Melania leaders are “parroting” myths
Giuliani did not respond to a Arizona Republican Par- Republican National Com- Trump, and teenage son, Bar- and called the pandemic “the
request for comment, but on ty tweeted a photo of Giu- mittee’s headquarters. His ron Trump, have also been worst event that this country
Sunday evening he retweeted liani and several state GOP son Andrew Giuliani, who stricken. will face.”
Trump’s announcement of lawmakers standing shoul- is a White House aide, an- The extraordinary spread in “And I think our job is to con-
his diagnosis. He also tweet- der-to-shoulder and mask- nounced a day after the event Trump’s orbit underscores stantly say those are myths,
ed thanks to a conservative less. The Arizona legislature that he had tested positive for the cavalier approach the Re- they are wrong and you can
writer who had said he was announced Sunday, after the virus. publican president has taken see the evidence-base,” Birx
praying for Giuliani. Giuliani’s diagnosis became Research shows that people to a virus that has now killed added.
Giuliani on Thursday attend- public, that it would close for who contract the virus may more than 282,000 people in ___
ed a hearing at the Georgia a week out of an abundance become infectious to others the U.S. alone. Lemire reported from Wilm-
Capitol, where he went with- of caution “for recent cases several days before they start Those infected also include ington, Delaware. Associated
out a mask for several hours. and concerns relating to CO- to feel ill. the White House press secre- Press writers Zeke Miller in
Several state senators, all Re- VID-19.” Georgia state Sen. Jen Jor- tary and advisers Hope Hicks Washington, Ben Nadler in
publicans, also did not wear The Trump campaign said dan, a Democrat who attend- and Stephen Miller, as well as Atlanta and David Eggert in
masks at the hearing. in a statement that Giuliani ed Thursday’s hearing, ex- Trump’s campaign manager Lansing, Michigan, contrib-
On Wednesday night, Giu- tested negative twice before pressed outrage after learning and the chair of the Republi- uted reporting.

Bob Woodward to take on final days of Trump’s presidency

(AP) — Bob Woodward’s and devastating account of
next book finds him in the President Richard Nixon as
familiar world of docu- he neared being forced out
menting a presidency’s of office over the Watergate
ending. scandal the reporters helped
break.
Woodward is teaming with Woodward already has writ-
Washington Post colleague ten two best-sellers on
Robert Costa on a book Trump, “Fear” and “Rage.”
about the waning days of For the new book, Wood-
Donald Trump’s administra- ward and Costa will have
tion and on the initial phase competition, from other Post
of Joe Biden’s presidency. reporters. Penguin Press an-
The book does not yet have a nounced Monday that Philip
title or release date. Rucker and Carol Leonnig,
In 1976, Woodward and co-authors of the Trump
then-fellow Washington Post book “A Very Stable Genius,”
reporter Carl Bernstein col- are writing about his last
laborated on the best-selling year in office and his loss to
“The Final Days,” what was Biden. There is currently no
then an unusually detailed title or release date.