An adviser to President Donald Trump who was named to oversee the campaign’s legal challenges contesting the outcome of last week’s election has tested positive for coronovirus, multiple outlets have reported.
Bloomberg News first reported the diagnosis of David Bossie, 55, followed by NBC News and CNN.
Bossie, president of the conservative nonprofit Citizens United, joins Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and chief of staff Mark Meadows as those connected to the White House who have contracted covid-19 in the past week.
Department of not great: David Bossie, who is supposed to be overseeing the Trump campaign’s legal challenges on the election, has coronavirus, CNN confirms. He’s been in the campaign’s headquarters and traveling extensively.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 9, 2020
A source told NBC News that Bossie, who tested positive on Sunday, is no longer part of the decision-making process of the election challenge effort “because he can’t be at the campaign headquarters and he can’t be in the Oval Office.”
According to reports, Bossie is the sixth person to test positive for coronavirus since the election night party in the East Room of the White House.
BREAKING—Trump advisor David Bossie (of Citizens United fame, he led that charge), tests positive for #COVID19. He was also former deputy CM for Trump in 2016. On top of Ben Carson, that now makes 51 in WH orbit in last 6 weeks.
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 9, 2020
The death toll from covid-19 has hit 239,000 nationwide.
