{"id":680056,"date":"2021-08-24T14:21:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=680056"},"modified":"2021-08-24T14:22:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:22:01","slug":"dccc-chairman-partied-maskless-at-billionaires-estate-in-france-after-state-dept-issued-do-not-travel-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dccc-chairman-partied-maskless-at-billionaires-estate-in-france-after-state-dept-issued-do-not-travel-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"DCCC Chairman Partied Maskless at Billionaire\u2019s Estate in France After State Dept. Issued \u2018Do Not Travel\u2019 Warning"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fdccc-chairman-partied-maskless-at-billionaires-estate-in-france-after-state-dept-issued-do-not-travel-warning%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=680056&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>The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee defied State Department guidelines by traveling to France this month. That didn&#8217;t stop him from lecturing Americans about the importance of following federal health and safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all have to do our part to crush this virus,&#8221; Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D., N.Y.)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSeanMaloney\/status\/1426638506391134220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Aug. 14, in the middle of his maskless European vacation. &#8220;Get your shot, wear a mask, and follow CDC guidelines. It&#8217;s just the right thing to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> investigation of the Instagram accounts of Maloney and his husband, Randy Florke, found that the power couple&#8217;s trip in France was in violation of U.S. health and safety guidelines. The State Department&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/traveladvisories\/traveladvisories\/france-travel-advisory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> is unequivocal: &#8220;Do not travel to France due to COVID-19.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While in France against the advice of the U.S. government, the congressman appeared to exercise little to no caution against the coronavirus. His Instagram stories included footage from a wedding at the Villa et Jardins Ephrussi de Rothschild, which is outside of Nice on the Mediterranean coast. None of the guests were wearing masks. The bride is a <a href=\"https:\/\/guestofaguest.com\/directory\/haley-plourde-cole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longtime ally<\/a> of Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance (D.), who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/why-didnt-manhattan-da-cyrus-vance-prosecute-the-trumps-or-harvey-weinstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declined to prosecute<\/a> sex criminal Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1510839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nice1.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/nice1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/nice1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/nice1-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/nice1-736x439.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maloney and his husband also traveled to Italy, even though the State Department has recommended that Americans &#8220;reconsider travel&#8221; to the country because of COVID-19. Once again, the couple did not do their part to &#8220;crush the virus,&#8221; as they were photographed without masks at an indoor art studio in Puglia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1510833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/puglia1.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/puglia1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/puglia1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/puglia1-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/puglia1-736x439.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After he returned to the United States, the congressman traveled to Napa Valley for a Democratic fundraiser that featured House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. Donors paid as much as $29,000 for tickets to the \u00e9lite soir\u00e9e. Servants were fully masked; Maloney and the other guests were not.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser took place near the French Laundry, the luxury restaurant where Gov. Gavin Newsom (D., Calif.) was infamously busted for violating his own COVID-19 guidelines by attending a maskless dinner party in Nov. 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney&#8217;s trips come at a perilous time for elected Democrats, many of whom spent the summer engaging in the sort of activities they have sought to discourage among the general population. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), for example, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rashida-tlaib-spotted-dancing-maskless-at-large-indoor-gathering-in-cdc-orange-zone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caught dancing<\/a>&nbsp;without a mask at an indoor wedding, in violation of county guidelines, on the same day she attacked Sen.&nbsp;Rand Paul (R., Ky.) for criticizing COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, former president Barack Obama threw himself a massive <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/guest-column-obama-birthday\/\">birthday party<\/a> at his $17.5 million estate on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard. Several weeks after the super-spreader event, the island&#8217;s only hospital is struggling to cope with the surge in patients testing positive for the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/obama-variant-super-spreader\/\">Obama variant<\/a> of of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee defied State Department guidelines by traveling to France this month. 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