Chris Christie says he has tested positive for the coronavirus
Source: Washington Post
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who helped Trump prepare for Tuesday night's presidential debate, said Saturday morning he tested positive for the coronavirus.
"I just received word that I am positive for COVID-19," Christie wrote on Twitter. "I want to thank all of my friends and colleagues who have reached out to ask how I was feeling in the last day or two. I will be receiving medical attention today and will keep the necessary folks apprised of my condition."
Christie was in close contact with Trump and other senior officials in recent days. He attended the event in the Rose Garden last Saturday where Trump announced his pick to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. At one point, he was seen hugging Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who has tested positive for the virus.
On Sunday, Christie attended a news conference in the White House briefing room, along with press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the president's personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani. They could be seen huddling close to one another, none of them wearing masks.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/10/03/trump-covid-live-updates/#link-KUUNGIHCXNC37KF237NO3WCBCQ
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@GovChristie
I just received word that I am positive for COVID-19. I want to thank all of my friends and colleagues who have reached out to ask how I was feeling in the last day or two. I will be receiving medical attention today and will keep the necessary folks apprised of my condition.
11:37 AM · Oct 3, 2020
ETA - Christie's exposure at the Rose Garden event -
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@nycsouthpaw
Video of the ACB announcement event on Saturday at the WH featuring Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who has now tested positive for Covid-19. via @bubbaprog
12:18 PM · Oct 2, 2020
jpak
(41,760 posts)Nope
Botany
(70,608 posts)Any other republican senators there?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,221 posts)Anything to shut him up would be a blessing.
catbyte
(34,478 posts)viral load by then. That's why I won't relax about Joe until next week.
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)Traildogbob
(8,830 posts)One by one. Fat people do not fair well. I did not know the virus passed through the anus and close contact to one is deadly. Close contact, I meant full head insertion.
Please, Barr, Graham, Turtle, and Trump family. Go visit him. Get your daily ass kissing in. Its safe, no mask required. Dont be a snowflake. Its a hoax, like a cold, take some of those millions of Hydroxy we paid for and get in there to cheer him up. Be Best. America is on its way to getting great again, pre trump great. Give me a Red Hat. Karma is making it so.
still_one
(92,449 posts)patricia92243
(12,605 posts)still_one
(92,449 posts)Traildogbob
(8,830 posts)Auggie
(31,204 posts)catbyte
(34,478 posts)onetexan
(13,069 posts)which is why he won't slither quietly away. He keeps groveling to the Con to stay relevant. I believe he still harbors POTUS dreams.
yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)and with his problems, he may be in major trouble.
Ohiogal
(32,113 posts)mpcamb
(2,878 posts)brush
(53,922 posts)and asthma. Republicans seem incapable of following the advice of doctors and scientists as to masks, social distancing and large, unmasked gatherings.
Christie might not survive this, trump either for that matter.
iluvtennis
(19,881 posts)answered my question. He was in contact with trump at the Amy Barrett event as well as debate prep.
BumRushDaShow
(129,653 posts)Double dose!
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@nycsouthpaw
Video of the ACB announcement event on Saturday at the WH featuring Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who has now tested positive for Covid-19. via @bubbaprog
12:18 PM · Oct 2, 2020
iluvtennis
(19,881 posts)dalton99a
(81,635 posts)A likely poor prognosis
NNadir
(33,568 posts)It couldn't happen to a nicer fat assed criminally minded fat fuck.
kiri
(797 posts)CC thought he had a bridge to become attorney general, after being the loyal burger-fetcher. Why he remains a puppet to Trumpio is a mystery after the worst slam of his life.
BTW, gets a nice pension from New Jersey taxpayers, but what does he actually do nowadays?
NNadir
(33,568 posts)He's a disgrace to my state.
catbyte
(34,478 posts)Lefta Dissenter
(6,622 posts)🤷🏼♀️
BumRushDaShow
(129,653 posts)rurallib
(62,463 posts)Traildogbob
(8,830 posts)Has been wearing depends for years. He was shitting his pants way before Covid.
The scent will be the same.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Covid was trump party swag ... Satan's #1 gift this year
Marthe48
(17,045 posts)every single victim of Covid-19 a headline. We wouldn't just hear about the asses who willfully ignored the science and medical guidelines.
eggplant
(3,914 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,653 posts)But I expect that was from the less-accurate "rapid tests".
The super-spreader Rose Garden event happened the Saturday before the Tuesday debate. CNN has been discussing the 72-hour "gap" of apparent "confirmation" of a positive and the reporting of it late Thursday night and Friday morning.
I.e., 45 apparently tested positive on Wednesday (probably when Hope Hicks tested positive) and he let that ride all the way to the end of the week. I expect that all the others like Christie, who were in contact with them, were ignoring what happened with Hicks and/or did not do the "full" nasal swab PCR test, until it was too late.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)only to get stuck in MASSIVE traffic in Fort Lee.
That would be karmic justice.
BumRushDaShow
(129,653 posts)I *finally* got the context of "Ft. Lee" in Jersey.
(and I've been back and forth over the GW bridge there MANY times)
karynnj
(59,507 posts)bridge causing a city wide traffic jam on the first day of school.
BumRushDaShow
(129,653 posts)like misusing state resources to fly a state chopper to his son's ballgames or of course, staying at a state beach when they were closed to the public during a budget standoff (generating all sorts of hilarious memes).
And that ASS cancelled the NY/NJ transit tunnel project, that WAS funded by the federal government, and had to repay hundreds of millions out of taxpayer's money because of that. It could have taken so much congestion off the GW Bridge.
He's a bully and always was one. We are South Jersey's media market and whenever he was out and about, we heard it and saw it.
karynnj
(59,507 posts)This is a hospital I know well - as my three daughters were born there.
SunSeeker
(51,744 posts)I still waiting on Barr and Roberts to be called.
BumRushDaShow
(129,653 posts)Uh oh, I think if I say that name one more time then...
SunSeeker
(51,744 posts)Roc2020
(1,616 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,191 posts)They willfully turned the White House rose garden into a giant petri dish.
bringthePaine
(1,733 posts)totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)The King of Prussia
(737 posts)That anyone whose BMI is higher than their IQ is fcuked if they get the virus.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)the White House? You are a fool, Chris Christie! An utter and depraved FOOL!