National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien attends a briefing on Enhanced Narcotics Operations at the US Southern Command in Doral, Florida, on July 10, 2020.
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President Donald Trump‘s national security advisor Robert O’Brien has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Bloomberg first reported O’Brien’s diagnosis, citing people familiar with the matter. CNN and Politico followed with reports of their own.
The NSA did not immediately respond to CNBC’s requests for comment on the reports. The White House did not immediately provide comment. A spokesman for the National Security Council declined to comment.
O’Brien, 54, is among the highest-ranking members in Trump’s orbit reported to have come down with the coronavirus. But other administration officials have previously been diagnosed with the virus.
Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary Katie Miller tested positive for Covid-19 in May.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, an official on Trump’s reelection campaign and the girlfriend of the president’s oldest son, tested positive in July.
O’Brien earlier this month had traveled to Europe to meet with officials from the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy.
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— CNBC’s Amanda Macias contributed reporting.