Another White House-linked positive

Vice-president Mike Pence’s press secretary tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House said Friday, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week.

  

And Pence's secretary - Katie Miller - is married to none other than the evil vizier himself, Stephen Miller.

The White House had no immediate comment on whether Stephen Miller had been tested or if he was still working out of the White House.

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One of Trump’s personal valets tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week.

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Katie Miller had tested negative on Thursday. A senior White House official said staff in the West Wing are tested regularly but much of Pence’s staff, which works next door in the Executive Office building, are tested less frequently.

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The president and vice-president will now be tested daily, as well as some staffers who closely interact with Trump.

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Also on Friday, a trove of international emails obtained by the Associated Press appeared to show that the decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation’s top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House.

Of course it did. Did anyone think otherwise?

According to the documents, the CDC continued inquiring for days about the guidance that officials had hoped to post by 1 May, the day Trump had targeted for reopening some businesses, according to a source who was granted anonymity because they were not permitted to speak to the press.

White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said Friday that the documents had not been approved by Redfield. The new emails, however, show that Redfield cleared the guidance.

That would be Kayleigh-I-will-not-lie-to-you McEnany?

The files also show that after the news service first reported that the guidance document had been buried, the Trump administration ordered key parts of it to be fast-tracked for approval.

The White House called the CDC and ordered them to refile all of the decision trees, except one that targeted churches.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

You have to wonder...is this why Trump announced closing down the task force?  Hoping this would quietly pass by?  Then when it became evident it was going to be a story, he immediately back-tracked on closing down the force?  I'd say, quite likely.

UPDATE: