4sight Health April 16, 2024
During the chaotic runup to the 2020 elections, President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s vacated seat. On Sept. 26, 2020, Trump held a White House Rose Garden ceremony to celebrate Coney Barrett’s nomination. It became a COVID-19 super-spreader event.
At least 11 of the attendees contracted COVID. They included the President and Melania Trump, Senators Mike Lee and Thom Tillis, adviser KellyAnne Conway, lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
COVID had struck the White House even before the Sept. 26 event. The most serious case involved Crede Bailey, the director of the White House security office. Bailey required three months in an intensive care unit to...