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Trump Aides Frustrated After Meadows’s Silence on Infection

  • Campaign aide Nick Trainer, several others also contract virus
  • Meadows is latest in series of cases linked to White House
Mark Meadows on Oct. 25. Like most White House aides and the president himself, Meadows is rarely seen wearing a mask.

Mark Meadows on Oct. 25. Like most White House aides and the president himself, Meadows is rarely seen wearing a mask.

Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Bloomberg
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Some of Donald Trump’s White House and campaign aides are frustrated that the president’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, didn’t issue a statement after he tested positive for coronavirus this week, instead informing only a close circle of advisers.

His infection was not widely known across Trump’s staff until late Friday, when Bloomberg News reported it. He tested positive on Wednesday, according to a senior administration official.