- Multiple Secret Service employees were ordered to self-quarantine in light of Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, The Washington Post reported.
- The news of the order came after two Secret Service agents tested positive for the coronavirus ahead of the rally.
- The two Secret Service employees — one advance agent and one officer did not attend the rally after their diagnoses.
- They did, however, attend a Friday meeting with other Secret Service agents and officers, who later worked the Saturday rally.
- "The entire team should have been switched out," one person familiar with the meeting told The Post. "They were all exposed."
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Dozens of Secret Service staff were ordered to self-quarantine for two weeks after Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, two people familiar with the order told The Washington Post.
The order came after six campaign staff members tested positive for the coronavirus ahead of the rally Saturday — two of whom were Secret Service employees. Two more staffers tested positive on Sunday.
The two Secret Service employees — one advance agent and one officer, had been assigned to help screen rally attendees at the BOK Center in Tulsa, which was hosted last Saturday in spite of the pleas from local health officials as cases in the state continue to surge, The Post reported.
They ultimately did not attend in light of their test results before the event, but other Secret Service employees who had contact with them at a Friday meeting ahead of the rally continued to work the rally, The Post reported.
"The entire team should have been switched out," one person familiar with the meeting told The Post. "They were all exposed."
Catherine Milhoan, a spokeswoman for the Secret Service, did not clarify how many employees tested positive or were ordered to quarantine, but told The Post in a statement that the agency "remains prepared and staffed to fulfill all of the various duties as required."
"To protect the privacy of our employees' health information and for operational security, the Secret Service is not releasing how many of its employees have tested positive for COVID-19, nor how many of its employees were, or currently are, quarantined," she said.
A former Secret Service supervisor told The Post condemned the president's decision to host an indoor rally and said it displayed a lack of concern for his employees.
"Here the law-and-order president is putting his law enforcement team at risk — and it's something they can't see," the former supervisor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The Post.
White House spokesman Judd Deere told The Post in a statement that "the President takes the health and safety of everyone traveling in support of himself and all White House operations very seriously."
"When preparing for and carrying out any travel, White House Operations collaborates with the Physician to the President and the White House Military Office, to ensure plans incorporate current CDC guidance and best practices for limiting COVID-19 exposure to the greatest extent possible," Deere continued in the statement.
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