Vice President Mike Pence needs an apology from a reporter who tweeted a few planning memo that mentioned masks have been required for the veep’s Tuesday go to to the Mayo Clinic.
Pence went maskless on the journey and his spouse, Karen Pence, advised Fox Information her husband was unaware of the clinic’s coverage till after the go to.
The masks coverage was communicated to reporters on the journey by Pence’s workplace and was revealed in a Thursday tweet by Voice of America reporter Steve Herman.
“All of us who traveled with him have been notified by the workplace of @VP the day earlier than the journey that carrying of masks was required by the @MayoClinic and to arrange accordingly,” Herman wrote.
Herman, who was on the Mayo Clinic journey, advised the Washington Submit that Pence’s workplace has threatened to bar him from future journeys on Air Drive Two for violating the off-the-record phrases of the memo.
However a Pence spokesperson later advised the paper that repercussions have been nonetheless up within the air pending an apology from Herman or his employer.
Pence was sharply criticized after the journey for going mask-free.
Images and movies of the tour confirmed the vice chairman bare-faced as he met with the workers of the Minnesota clinic and a minimum of one affected person. Everybody else within the footage wore a protecting face masking.
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