Crede Bailey: Trump security chief has leg amputated after catching Covid at Rose Garden super-spreader event
The director of White House security, Crede Bailey, had to reportedly get his leg amputated as he continues to recover from Covid-19, after attending a 'super-spreader' event at the White House Rose Garden in September, celebrating Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court. He lost his right leg and part of his left foot to Covid-19 after spending three months in the ICU, a friend has revealed.
We previously reported that the White House has remained relatively silent about the number of its staffers who tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Reports, meanwhile suggested that among the most severely ill of people who contracted the virus from the event was Bailey. Reportedly, he has been in the hospital since September, much before the "super spreader" Rose Garden event on the 26th of the same month. It has also been said that four sources confirmed Bailey’s diagnosis to Bloomberg, which first reported his Illness, while the White House is yet to disclose details. There were also rumors that Bailey was the source of the virus at the White House as he had been hospitalized much before the September 26 event.
According to the Sun, Bailey's family asked the Trump administration not to disclose his condition to the public and as a result, the president has never admitted Bailey's illness. So far, a GoFundMe created by a friend of Bailey's is very close to completing its $50,000 goal.
"This is a campaign to help Crede Bailey and his family with medical and healing expenses necessary as a result of Crede's COVID-19 illness and the life-altering results," wrote Dawn McCrobie, a friend of Bailey's. "First let me say that Crede will NOT be happy I've done this as he is a proud man who is the first to help everyone else but would never ask for help himself. But the reality is this. His family has staggering medical bills from a hospital stay of 2+ months and still counting in the ICU and a long road ahead in rehab before he can go home. When he does make it home there will be major changes necessary to deal with his new, and permanent, disability."
She added: "We don't want Crede or his family to carry the financial burden, we need them to focus on his health and recovery. Please donate whatever amount you can! All funds will go to medical bills, renovations, and equipment necessary as a result of his disability." McCrobie further described Bailey as "the friend you've always wanted, the guy you depend on for anything at the 9th hour, and the one who will always make you laugh."
When McCrobie updated a month later, she wrote that "Crede beat COVID-19 but it came at a significant cost: his big toe on his left foot as well as his right foot and lower leg had to be amputated." She confirmed that Bailey will be fitted for a prosthetic leg in the upcoming months, as he continues to recuperate at a rehabilitation center
Bailey is a career federal employee, who was in the news in 2019 for being linked with the security clearances granted to Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Even though he has made very rare appearances in the news, he is said to have privately testified to the House Oversight Committee that he wasn’t pressurized by others in the White House to grant clearances, The Hill reported.
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