Posted on 03/23/2020 3:15:54 PM PDT by RummyChick
The coronavirus outbreak took a new turn which could impact how Americans get information about the crisis, after a White House reported came down with a suspected case.
Word of the possible infection brought an immediate change in the set-up of the White House briefing room, which had already been implementing 'social distancing' by kicking out more than half the press in hopes of averting any spread among those who cover the president.
President Trump has provided near daily press briefings on the crisis – declaring himself a 'wartime president' and clashing with reporters in the absence of campaign rallies amid the outbreak. He called NBC's Peter Alexander a 'terrible reporter' during one contentious briefing last week.
'We have been informed that one of our colleagues has a suspected case of COVID-19,' wrote Jon Karl of ABC News, president of the White House Correspondents Association, in a message to fellow White House reporters Monday.'
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Can’t they do these remotely?
It’s time for martial law.
No kidding. Fauci not there today. Barr is there.
The spacing seems bigger today
They should go back to doing them outside with a couple of helicopters blowing the virii away.
If Trump and Pence are exposed...
Nancy waits in the wings.
I have news for them. POTUS does not need FakeMedia, they need him. He’s got Twitter and the American public behind him.
barr is there to talk about price gouging and hording medical stuff
Sorry, Barr you can’t have my n95 masks..I need them to stay alive.
I wonder if the Chinese reporter with the fever is the one who exposed the other press members.
I’m not sure it works like that.
It looks like it is an ABC reporter
NO forget that...the ABC thing is not pertinent
Sounds far-fetched, but I wouldn’t put it past them. Some of them (leftists) hate us and want us dead.
I have no doubt the MSM and repugnant WH employee holdovers would do everything in their power to infect POTUS.
whew...Barr not coming for our toilet paper and n95 masks in our home
He is going after people stockpiling in a warehouse to manipulate the market ,etc.
ABC - Amercan Broadcasting Coronavirus
I really don’t have any idea why they would let anyone around the president at this point.
I further have no idea why any of those people would be asinine reporters like the ones we have.
You know what happens if you get sick, Mr. President? America is done, that’s what.
They are trying to close down Trump just like Rachel Maddow said to do!! SCREW THEM! KEEP TALKING PRESIDENT TRUMP!
I suspect the press are boycotting this not because they are sick but because the president’s masterful handling of these conferences are increasing his poll numbers.
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