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was not immediately clear when or how he was infected.
Another top campaign aide, Nick Trainer, has also tested
positive for the virus, according to the source.
Meadows, Trump's top adviser and a former North Carolina
lawmaker, regularly accompanied U.S. President Donald Trump on
the final frenzied days of the campaign rallies leading up to
the presidential election on Tuesday.
Meadows, who was at a White House election night party attended
by dozens of Trump loyalists, is the latest official within
Trump's close circle to have contracted COVID-19, which has
killed more than 236,000 Americans.
Trump has regularly downplayed the severity of the virus, which
has surged in recent weeks and is poised to continue do so into
the winter. He has contradicted the public statements of top
health experts, even after an outbreak seized the White House in
October.
The president was briefly hospitalized at the time after he was
infected with the virus. His wife and son Barron also tested
positive for the coronavirus in October.
His national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, was also sickened
with the virus. Another friend of Trump's, former Republican
presidential candidate Herman Cain, died of the coronavirus in
July after attending one of Trump's rallies.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Se Young Lee and Makini
Brice; Editing by Tim Ahmann, Muralikumar Anantharaman and
William Mallard)
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