WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Monday, the top senior management official who contracted the disease.
The news came days after he announced that a Marine assigned to the Marine One unit tested positive for coronavirus but had no direct contact with Trump or his presidential helicopter.
O’Brien, who was appointed national security adviser in September, “presents mild symptoms, self-aies and works from a safe place offsite,” the White House said in a statement, saying there was no threat to the president. or the vice president of the exhibition.
“The paintings of the National Security Council remain uninterrupted,” he said.
Trump couldn’t last meet with O’Brien and knew exactly when his most sensible security adviser tested positive.
“I haven’t noticed him lately,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Trump and O’Brien were last seen in public in a combination on a July 10 stopover at U.S. Southern Command in South Florida. The following week, O’Brien travelled to Paris to meet with colleagues from France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.
The White House also conducted a tactile search last week after a cafeteria salesman worker in the internal executive construction of two Eisenhower restaurants tested positive for coronavirus.
Katie Miller, senior spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence, took the test in early May and has since returned to work.