As Air Force One rolled down a runway at Orlando Sanford International Airport on Monday, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., a last-minute passenger on the presidential aircraft, got a message from his chief of staff.
Gaetz, who had appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 27, had taken a photograph with someone who was later determined to have been carrying the coronavirus, his chief of staff’s message said.
By late Monday afternoon, Gaetz left Washington by private vehicle.
“I couldn’t stay in a hotel,” he said from the car as he arrived in Okaloosa County at mid-morning Tuesday, where he plans to spend the remainder of his self-imposed quarantine.
Instead, he said, “I slept in a Walmart parking lot somewhere off (Interstate) 85.”
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