Another White House super-spreader event: Trump to 'celebrate' Election Night with 'roughly 400 people' in East Room party

Another White House super-spreader event: Trump to 'celebrate' Election Night with 'roughly 400 people' in East Room party
President Donald J. Trump announces Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Rose Garden of the White House on Saturday, September 26, 2020, who was joined by her husband Jesse Barrett and their children. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
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November 01, 2020 | 01:00PM ETBank

President Donald Trump will be celebrating Election Day evening with hundreds of supporters invited to a party at the White House East Room, in yet another display of erasing the line between politics and governing, and ignoring CDC coronavirus guidance on gatherings and masks.

The New York Times's Maggie Haberman on Sunday reports Trump "aides are discussing inviting roughly 400 people."

The President had planned to watch the results from his Trump Hotel at the Old Post Office, but Washington, D.C. laws prohibit gatherings of more than 50 people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A study this week found 18 of Trump's recent rallies are directly responsible for 700 coronavirus deaths and 30,000 new COVID-19 cases.

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