Biden walking through ritzy DC restaurant maskless, violating citywide mandate

Biden walking through ritzy DC restaurant maskless, violating citywide mandate
Matthew Miller
Sun, October 17, 2021, 12:34 PM

Video footage shows a maskless President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walking through a Washington, D.C., restaurant, breaking the city's mask mandate for indoor venues.

The Bidens are seen walking through ritzy D.C. Italian seafood restaurant Fiola Mare Saturday evening, followed by Secret Service wearing black suits and black facemasks.



The Bidens had just come from mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown, the Daily Mail reports. The presidential date night came on "Sweetest Day," a holiday celebrated in the Midwest and Florida to recognize expressions of romance and acts of kindness.

Washington, D.C.'s indoor mask mandate was reinstated in July due to rising delta variant cases for vaccinated and unvaccinated people over the age of 2.

Fiola Mare's own website clearly states masks must be worn in accordance with the city mandate.

"Per CDC guidance and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s executive order, all individuals over age 2 are required to wear a mask indoors, regardless of vaccination status. Masks must be always worn while in our restaurants, except while eating and drinking. Thank you for understanding," the restaurant's website reads.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has been caught several times violating her own mask mandate, most recently in September, when she spoke during an indoor panel at a convention center maskless, surrounded by maskless guest speakers.



The Washington Examiner reached out to Fiola Mare for comment but did not receive a reply by time of publishing.

More dems that flaunt their own mandates:

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Chicago Mayor Seen Maskless at WNBA Game, Violating Mandates
Brittany Bernstein, National Review
Tue, October 19, 2021, 6:03 AM

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appeared to attend a WNBA game maskless over the weekend, in violation of local and state mandates.

In a photo she posted to Twitter, the Democratic mayor can be seen maskless at the game surrounded by a crowd of masked spectators. Chicago and the state of Illinois both require that masks be worn at all indoor public venues by individuals over the age of two, regardless of vaccination status.



The commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, Allison Arwady, enacted the city’s mask mandate, which has been in effect since August 20.

In 2020, Lightfoot defended herself against another COVID-19 restriction controversy after she was caught getting a haircut while a statewide stay-at-home order was in place.

“I’m the public face of this city,” Lightfoot said at the time. “I’m on national media and I’m out in the public eye … I think what really people want to talk about is, we’re talking about people dying here. We’re talking about significant health disparities. I think that’s what people care most about.”

Lightfoot is one of several Democrats who have become ensnared in scandals over COVID-19 restrictions, including President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden who were seen violating Washington, D.C.’s indoor mask mandate at an upscale Georgetown restaurant on Saturday.

Both California Governor Gavin Newsom and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser have been criticized during the pandemic after breaking their own rules on masking, as well.

Last November, photos obtained by FOX 11 Los Angeles showed the governor and his wife in an unmasked group eating shoulder-to-shoulder indoors at a birthday party for Jason Kinney, a longtime lobbyist and Newsom adviser, at French Laundry.

Meanwhile, Bowser came under fire in July after she held her own maskless birthday celebration hours before her mask mandate went into effect. She was again seen maskless hours after the mandate went into effect during an indoor wedding reception.

In September, she again flouted her own mask rules when she shared a picture of herself maskless with a group of women at an indoor Jack and Jill summit.