{"id":585410,"date":"2021-07-07T15:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T19:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585410"},"modified":"2021-07-07T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T19:36:05","slug":"photos-john-kerry-flouts-mask-mandate-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/photos-john-kerry-flouts-mask-mandate-at-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphotos-john-kerry-flouts-mask-mandate-at-airport%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585410&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>White House climate envoy John Kerry was photographed without a face mask while walking through Boston Logan International Airport on Monday morning\u2014the second time he has been snapped apparently flouting the mask mandate during air travel this year\u2014according to photographs obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In photos, Kerry can be seen walking through an airport body scanner without wearing a mask. The source who provided the photos said they were taken at 11:41 a.m. on Monday at Logan Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry previously denied that he went maskless on an American Airlines flight after a picture emerged in March, calling the image &#8220;malarkey&#8221; and claiming his mask slipped momentarily.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1493802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.jpg\" alt width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1-736x981.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1-368x491.jpg 368w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Logan Airport told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that masks are required &#8220;any time someone is inside the airport or on an aircraft,&#8221; including during security screening, in accordance with the TSA mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to a request for comment. President Joe Biden appointed Kerry last year to serve as his special presidential envoy for climate, a cabinet-level position.<\/p>\n<p>Biden implemented the TSA airport mask requirement through an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/news\/press\/releases\/2021\/01\/31\/tsa-implement-executive-order-regarding-face-masks-airport-security\">executive order<\/a>&nbsp;in January. As part of the mandate, TSA&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/coronavirus\/penalty-mask\">said<\/a> it would recommend a $250 fine for first-time violators and an up to $1,500 fine for &#8220;repeat offenders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the TSA declined to comment on the specific incident but told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;the requirement &#8220;remains in effect&#8221; on planes and in airports and &#8220;applies to all passengers, save for those specifically exempted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/sd-and-ea\">security directive<\/a>&#8220;\u2014passengers under the age of two, for example, or those who have health issues that would preclude them from wearing face coverings.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry denied breaking the mask mandate in March, after photos of him going maskless on an American Airlines flight were published by the <em>Tennessee Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let\u2019s be clear: If I dropped my mask to one ear on a flight, it was momentary,&#8221; Kerry&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClimateEnvoy\/status\/1372332570915012616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1372332570915012616%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2021\/03\/18\/john-kerry-maskless-photo-american-airlines-flight\/\">wrote<\/a> in a Twitter post on March 17. &#8220;I wear my mask because it saves lives and stops the spread. It\u2019s what the science tells us to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry\u2019s press office did not respond to a request for comment. A spokeswoman for the State Department, where Kerry\u2019s office is based, declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House climate envoy John Kerry was photographed without a face mask while walking through Boston Logan International Airport on Monday morning\u2014the second time he has been snapped apparently flouting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2314192,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"PHOTOS: John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Airport","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"PHOTOS: John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Airport","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}