President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is weighing in amid the president’s COVID-19 diagnosis.
Giuliani appeared on “Good Morning America” Monday where he was asked about the president’s debate prep. Five of nine people in the room for the preparations with the president ahead of the first presidential debate have since tested positive for COVID-19.
Trump ally Chris Christie noted on Friday, “No one was wearing masks in the room when we were prepping the president during that period of time.” Christie has tested positive for the virus.
Giuliani, however, noted that he has tested negative and has no symptoms.
“I guess you just can’t predict how this disease travels,” Giuliani said, admitting, “Probably right, if anyone was wearing a mask [it was] maybe one person in the corner.”
He added that they all had been tested for COVID-19 prior to the debate prep.
“I just think this disease is very, very unpredictable,” he said, to which host George Stephanopoulos responded, “Boy, that is an understatement.”
Watch Giuliani’s interview below:
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After talking with the president on Sunday evening, Giuliani said that Trump is “feeling great.”
“He wants to get out,” Giuliani continued. “He sounds perfect. I just cautioned him to listen to his doctors.”
Asked if the doctors decided last night if Trump can return to the White House, Giuliani responded, “I don’t think they decided yet, no. All of these decisions are assuming you make the progress they predicted you’re going to make by the next day.”
Giuliani said of Trump leaving the hospital on Sunday when he made a surprise visit to his supporters outside the hospital in a drive-by, “I think the president wanted to show people, ‘I’m around. I’m doing well.'”
Trump went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday to be treated for COVID-19 and is still there as of Monday morning.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows indicated on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning during a phone call interview that the “determination has not been made yet” on Trump’s return to the White House but, “Obviously, he continued to improve overnight and his health continues to improve.”
Meadows continued, “The doctors will actually have an evaluation sometime late morning and then the president, in consultation with the doctors, will make a decision on whether to discharge him later today.”
“We’re still optimistic that based on his unbelievable progress and how strong he’s been in terms of his fight against this COVID-19 disease that he will be released, but that decision will not be made until later today,” he added.
