Never has a story been more surprising and predictable at the same time than this one.

Because when a guy who mocks masks and doesn't social distance keeps traveling across the

country with the highest case count in the world, it's only a matter of time before he

tests positive for the coronavirus.

Very early this morning, President Donald Trump revealed his time to test positive had finally

come.

Aaron Rupar, you cover the president for Vox.

Do we have any idea which of the many unsafe things he's been doing led to Trump's testing

positive?

Well, at this stage, it's a little bit speculative just in that we can't be totally sure what the

chain of transmission was.

But what it's looking like is that the spread may be linked to this trip that Hope Hicks,

who is a top White House aide, took with the president in a number of other White House

officials, including Steven Miller and Jared Kushner on Wednesday.

The chain of events here is kind of illustrative of how some of the shortcomings with coronavirus

testing because apparently what happened here is Hope Hicks on Wednesday morning took

a test for COVID, which is something that regularly happens for White House officials.

And on Wednesday morning, she tested negative for the virus.

So that day, there's a photograph of her boarding Marine one, one of the White House helicopters

for a trip to Minnesota where Trump delivered a campaign speech in Duluth.

Apparently towards the end of the evening during Trump speech, Hope Hicks began to feel ill

and when Hope Hicks took a test that evening for the coronavirus, she tested positive.

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