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BREAKING scoop: Trump’s National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien has tested positive for the coronavirus, sources tell me.
Scoop: Robert O’Brien has been diagnosed with covid-19. He apparently contracted the coronavirus at a family event. He's been isolating at home but still doing work remotely, I'm told.
NEWS: Robert O’Brien is the closest official to Trump to develop the coronavirus, sources tell me and @SalehaMohsin, as the pandemic continues to surge with infections and deaths on the rise in many U.S. states.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
BREAKING: White House confirms Robert O'Brien tested positive. "He has mild symptoms and has been self-isolating and working from a secure location off site. There is no risk of exposure to the President or the Vice President. The work of the National Security Council continues"
NEW: Trump's national security adviser apparently got coronavirus from a college-aged relative, sources tell me. Robert O'Brien took a few days off with his family. While on vacation, one relative felt unwell, then tested positive. O'Brien isolated himself, but it was too late.
Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow tells a press gaggle Robert O’Brien’s daughter has coronavirus and the national security adviser likely contracted it from her. (O’Brien and his wife went on vacation with their college-aged daughter.)
Q: Have you seen Robert O'Brien lately?

TRUMP: "No, I haven’t seen him lately. I heard he, uh, he tested. Yeah, I have not seen him. I'm calling him later."

Q: When did he first test positive?

TRUMP: "I don't know. I don't know."

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