President Donald Trump posted a short video on Tuesday of CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl not wearing a face mask at the White House.
In the video, two other individuals can be seen wearing face masks while Stahl is mask-free. Several members of the White House staff, including Trump, have tested positive for COVID-19 recently. Some observers have pointed to a September event at the White House for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett as potentially being the source of the virus’s spread throughout Trump’s staffers. Trump has often been observed in public without wearing a face mask.
“Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes not wearing a mask in the White House after her interview with me,” Trump tweeted. “Much more to come.”
Newsweek reached out to 60 Minutes for comment.
In May, Stahl revealed that she had been hospitalized with the coronavirus for a week. “One of the rules of journalism is ‘don’t become part of the story,'” Stahl said at the end of an episode of 60 Minutes. “But instead of covering the pandemic, I was one of the more than one million Americans who did become part of it.”
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