White House senior staff member Stephen Miller, President Trump’s main speech specialist and domestic policy adviser, tested positive for the Covid on Tuesday, as indicated by reports.
Mill confirmed his COVID-19 diagnosis in an announcement saying he had tested negative up until Monday while working distantly.
“Throughout the most recent five days I have been working distantly and self-isolating, testing negative each day through yesterday,” Miller told the newspaper. “Today, I tested positive for Covid-19 and am in isolate.”
An integral part of Trump’s administration, Miller is the architect of the president’s “America First” foreign policy and restrictive immigration measures.
His wife, Katie Miller, a spokeswoman for Vice President Mike Pence, tested positive for the virus in May. After she recovered from the bug, she announced in a tweet that she was pregnant.
Stephen Miller is the latest White House staffer to catch the illness after Hope Hicks, another Trump aide, tested positive last week and then President Trump was diagnosed and hospitalized for three days with the bug.
Before Hicks’ diagnosis, Miller was seen in close contact with her and other Trump campaign staffers last week, Bloomberg had reported.
