Chris Wallace- Trump arrived at the debate too late for COVID-19 test - News Today
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For any copyright, please send me a message. Donald Trump and his family arrived in Cleveland for Tuesday night's debate too late to take the suggested COVID test, the moderator Chris Wallace has revealed. Wallace on Friday afternoon told his Fox News colleague Bill Hemmer that they were not tested.'There was an honor system when it came to the people who came into the hall from the two campaigns,' Wallace said.Wallace arrived in Cleveland on Sunday, in time to be tested.'They couldn't be tested by the clinic,' Wallace said.'They didn't arrive until Tuesday afternoon. So for them to get tested, there wouldn't have been enough time to have the test and have the debate at 9 that night. They didn't show up until 3, 4, 5 in the afternoon.'Eleven people involved with setup and planning for Tuesday's presidential debate tested positive for the coronavirus after the event, the city of Cleveland said on Friday, without specifying their role. 'Members of the Commission were not especially happy with the fact that the presidential party was not wearing masks,' Wallace. 'There seems to have been a disregard for the risks of this virus.' Share this article Share Trump and his wife Melania both tested positive on Thursday evening, with the results disclosed shortly after midnight, in the early hours of Friday. On Friday evening the president's condition worsened, and he was taken by helicopter to the Walter Reed medical center.Ahead of the debate, doctors from a clinic in Cleveland, providing medical support for the event, asked all attendees to wear face masks.The Trump contingent refused once in their seats, according to NBC News. A Cleveland Clinic doctor in a white lab coat started to approach Trump family guests to ask them to put on masks. She offered them one in case they did not have one. She never approached any family members but as she got closer to them, someone shook their head and no one she reminded to put on a mask ended up putting one on.Jill Biden, Senator Chris Coons and others sitting in the Democratic section began to look over, NBC reported. When the doctor, who refused to comment to the press, walked off the floor, a debate hall staffer reportedly told her: 'That's all you can do.'Biden and his wife, who were wearing face masks before and after the event, and were mocked by Trump supporters for doing so, have both tested negative for the virus. Trump ridiculed Biden for following the CDC guidelines by avoiding large gatherings, wearing a face mask in public and socially-isolating himself.'I don't wear a mask like him,' Trump said. 'Every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from him and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen.' Now Fox News, which
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