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‘I don’t think he really cares’: Al Lawson blames Donald Trump for no stimulus checksLawson said House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi wants to do “everything she can” to help.

Oct. 7 - Congressman Al Lawson blamed President Donald Trump on Wednesday for Congress’s inability to deliver a stimulus check to the American public...      continue to read

I think this was a blessing from god that I caught it,' President Donald Trump said in a video from the Rose Garden after not being seen by the public for more than 24 hours

President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on Wednesday to be briefed on the stimulus talks and Hurricane Delta, the White House announced, despite being contagious from the coronavirus. It is unclear who is in the Oval Office with him. Trump tweeted he spoke with Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards about the hurricane headed to their coast and urged people to listen to FEMA. 'Was just briefed on Hurricane Delta, and spoke with @GovAbbott of Texas and @LouisianaGov John Bel Edwards. Please heed the directions of your State and Local Officials. We are working with them very closely - please be prepared, be careful, and be safe!,' he wrote. A Marine guard appeared in front of the West Wing Wednesday afternoon. A Marine is present when the president is in the Oval Office. White House deputy press secretary Brian Morgenstern said precautions were in place for when the president wanted to return to his office. 'We have ways for him to do that, we have PPE that we can use. And we can interact with him standing back like you're standing back,' he told reporters outside the White House. 'And people can wear masks, or goggles or gloves or whatever may be needed. We have the CDC guidelines,' he added. 

'It's a blessing from God I got it!' Trump tweets Rose Garden video claiming he has been 'cured' of COVID by Regeneron and feels 'like perfect'- and says he'll give out experimental therapy for free as doctors say get back to quarantine NOW

Oct. 8 - President Donald Trump tweeted out a video shot from the White House Rose Garden where he says he has been 'cured' of COVID by the experimental drug Regeneron – then pitched the medication and promised to make it available to all Americans for free.The president released the outdoor statement Wednesday evening, after being out of sight for more than 24 hours after returning from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he was checked in after testing positive for the coronavirus.
He called getting the disease a 'blessing from God.' 

'I think this was a blessing from god that I caught it. This was a blessing in disguise,' Trump said.
Trump went out to tout the experimental antibody cocktail Regeneron.     continue to read

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The briefings on President Trump's health are a deliberate exercise in obfuscation, says physician and Post contributing columnist Leana S. Wen, viewed on Oct.6, 2020

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) asks questions during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 30
Will Republican senators defend Trump’s recklessness?

Oct. 6 - Even before President Trump left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with a deadly communicable disease on Monday, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Tex.), who is on the ballot in November, issued a rare Republican rebuke of the president.

“I think he let his guard down, and I think in his desire to try to demonstrate that we are somehow coming out of this and that the danger is not still with us — I think he got out over his skis and frankly, I think it’s a lesson to all of us that we need to exercise self-discipline,” Cornyn told the Houston Chronicle. He rejected Trump’s notion that we have this under control, insisting, “I think the biggest mistake people make in public life is not telling the truth, particularly in something with as much public interest as here because you know the real story is going to come out.” For good measure, the senator added: “It is not easy to try to get things done working with him or the White House.”     source

 Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s senior advisor, has tested positive for coronavirus.
Trump aide Stephen Miller tests positive for Covid-19

Oct. 7 - Stephen Miller, the top Trump adviser who has tested positive for Covid-19, was among the most ardent defenders of the administration’s policy too separate children from parents.

The immigration hardliner who has publicly espoused racist and white nationalist ideas that migration and amnesty for immigrants would “decimate” the US, was behind the president’s decision to ratchet up zero tolerance policies that resulted in at least 5,400 children being separated from their parents.     source

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PBS NewsHour full episode, Oct. 5, 2020
Oct. 6, 2020
Monday on the NewsHour, President Trump prepares to depart Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, as confusion about his health persists. Plus: The expanding White House coronavirus outbreak, a former Pence adviser speaks out, two medical experts weigh in, how the president’s diagnosis is affecting both presidential campaigns and Politics Monday with Amy Walter and Domenico Montanaro.

 Trump releases incoherent video with dangerous messages about Covid

Oct. 6 - Donald Trump has published a startlingly incoherent and dangerous video message on Twitter, in which he again encouraged Americans not to take the coronavirus seriously.
The approximately 90-second clip appears to have been recorded soon after Trump returned to the White House and removed his mask, potentially exposing the White House staff to his active coronavirus infection.

Trump began by thanking the staff at Walter Reed Medical Center, before repeating a line he tweeted earlier today about the virus that has thus far killed more than 1m people worldwide:

Don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it. You’re gonna beat it. We have the best medical equipment. We have the best medicines, all developed recently, and you’re gonna beat it.

More than 210,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus, for which there is no known cure. Trump has been treated with experimental drugs that are not available to the general public, and has received round-the-clock care from a dedicated medical staff. Approximately 28m people in the US lack health insurance.

Trump then began to speak about his own health, saying:

I went, I didn’t feel so good, and two days ago, I could have left two days ago. Two days ago, I felt great, like better than I have in a long time. I just said recently, better than twenty years ago.

Trump and his medical team have not been transparent about his condition. On Sunday, his doctor admitted that Trump had twice required supplemental oxygen, but it is unclear exactly when. Trump is also receiving dexamethasone, a steroid which is normally only prescribed to Covid patients with severe cases.
Trump continued:

Don’t let it dominate. Don’t let it take over your lives. Don’t let that happen. We have the greatest country in the world. We’re going back. We’re going back to work. We’re going to be out front. As your leader I had to do that. I knew there was danger to it but I had to do it. I stood out front. I lead. Nobody that’s a leader would not do what I did. And I know there’s a danger, but that’s okay.

It is very hard to understand what Trump is saying in this section of the video, or what he means by “I had to do that”. It is certainly not the case that as president Trump was required to defy basic public health guidelines, such as wearing a face mask and eschewing large crowds or indoor events. The vast majority of heads of state around the world have continued to lead their countries without taking unnecessary risks that expose both themselves and their staffs to a potentially deadly disease.
He continued:

And now I’m better. And maybe I’m immune. I don’t know.

According to his own doctor, Trump is not “better” yet. He is still symptomatic with Covid-19 and, crucially, still infectious. While those who recover from Covid-19 will likely have immunity from reinfection, Trump has not yet recovered. According to CDC guidelines, he should be in isolation.
And he concluded:

But don’t let it dominate your lives. Get out there. Be careful. We have the best medicines in the world. And it all happened very shortly. And they’re all getting approved. And the vaccines are coming momentarily. Thank you very much and Walter Reed – what a group of people. Thank you very much.

Again, while Trump has received experimental medicines and state-of-the-art care, there is no cure for Covid-19 and no indication that a safe and effective vaccine will be released “momentarily”.

If you are reading this, do not follow Trump’s advice. If you need to leave your home, wear a mask, wash you hands, and maintain social distance.     from Live

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OCTOBER 4, 2020
President Trump Twitter Video Statement
President Trump released a video statement on his Twitter feed from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he was being treated for COVID-19.

BREAKING: President Trump's surprise drive-by greeting to supporters
Oct. 5, 2020
US President Donald Trump has paid a surprise visit to supporters outside the hospital where he is being treated for the coronavirus. The 74-year-old briefly left Walter Reed Medical Center in Maryland on Sunday and was seen sitting in a black vehicle, wearing a mask as he waved to people waiting by the roadside. Sky's correspondent Sally Lockwood, who was there, said there had been a "mini rally growing outside the front of the hospital - he can hear them if he can't see them from his hospital suite, I'm sure - it has been non-stop all day".

Donald Trump waves at his supporters outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. 

Oct. 5 - Judd Deere, deputy press secretary, just told a White House pool reporter that Donald Trump’s appearance in front of Walter Reed Hospital was “cleared by the medical team as safe to do” and said that “appropriate precautions were taken in the execution of this movement to protect the President and all those supporting it, including PPE”.

Concerns over the appearance and whether Trump put the other people that were in the car with him, who are likely Secret Service personnel, at risk of contracting the virus have been raised on Twitter. The White House has since emphasized that the ride was short and impromptu.

Trump has reportedly told his advisers that he is bored at the hospital and is tired of watching reports of his hospitalization on television, according to the Washington Post.    source

Donald Trump received oxygen at least twice since Covid-19 illness
Oct. 4 2020
Donald Trump’s doctor, Sean Conley said the president experienced two drops in oxygen levels and needed to be given supplemental oxygen two times since becoming ill on Thursday Conley said he had been upbeat about the president’s health to no 'steer the course of the illness' but it had appeared the team had tried to be evasive Another member of the team, Dr Brian Garabaldi, said the president may be released as early as tomorrow

Donald Trump received oxygen at least twice since Covid-19 diagnosis

Trump makes brief visit to fans outside Walter Reed despite questions over condition – live
Oct. 5 - Sean Conley, White House physician, reportedly told co-workers in the spring, before the president contracted Covid-19, that he was feeling intense personal stress in his current job, according to a new report from the Washington Post.

Conley, a 40-year-old Navy commander, joined the White House medical staff in December 2016 after serving as a Navy emergency physician and serving in a trauma unit in Afghanistan. He was tapped as White House physician in 2018.
The Post reports that those who have worked with Conley believe that the public statements he has given appear to be dictated by politics. “Every statement he is giving appears to be political, dictated by the White House or the president,” one anonymous source who has worked with Conley told the Post. “These are not statement a medical doctor gives.”
After painting an upbeat picture of the president’s health on Saturday, Conley today admitted that the president’s oxygen levels had dropped at one point. He said that he was “trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, over his course of illness, has had.”    source

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Trump to America: 'I think I'll be back soon'
Donald Trump said he “thinks he’ll be back soon” in a four-minute video posted to Twitter on Saturday night.

Oct. 4 - “I want to begin by thanking all of the incredible medical professionals, the doctors, the nurses, everybody, at Walter Reed Medical Center – I think it’s the finest in the world – for the incredible job they’ve been doing,” the US president said. “I came here, wasn’t feeling so well, I feel much better now. We’re working hard to get me all the way back. I have to be back, because we still have to make America great again. We’ve done an awfully good job of that, but we still have steps to go and we have to finish that job. And I’ll be back, I think I’ll be back soon, and I look forward to finishing up the campaign the way it was started and the way we’ve been doing and the kind of numbers that we’ve been doing. We’ve been so proud of it.

“But this was something that happened, and it’s happened to millions of people all over the world, and I’m fighting for them. Not just in the US, I’m fighting for them all over the world. We’re going to beat this coronavirus or whatever you want to call it, and we’re going to be that soundly.”     source

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PBS NewsHour Weekend Full Episode October 3, 2020
Oct. 4,  2020
On this edition for Saturday, October 3, President Trump’s physician says the president, who remains hospitalized at Walter Reed Military Medical Center for COVID-19, is doing “very well” even as concerns over his true health condition rise. Also, top White House aides and Senators test positive for COVID-19. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.

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WATCH: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks about Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis
Oct 2, 2020

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks to reporters about President Trump's positive coronavirus test outside the West Wing.

Confusion, concern infiltrate White House as Trump heads to hospital

Oct. 3 - ..."The Trump campaign only said that campaign events for the next week in Wisconsin, California, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania are postponed.

“It’s all in flux,” said the Republican close to the president. “But you have to keep fighting the fight”..."     source

BREAKING: Donald Trump taken to hospital after COVID-19 diagnosis
Oct. 3  2020

Live updates: Trump gives thumbs up as he is transferred to hospital

Oct. 2 - President Trump was transferred Friday afternoon to Walter Reed Medical Center to be evaluated for COVID-19. He walked out to the helicopter and gave a thumbs up to the cameras outside.
 
White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany said Friday that Mr. Trump has "mild symptoms," and was being transferred to Walter Reed Medical Center "out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of his physician and medical experts." 

White House sources said Mr. Trump was suffering from a low-grade fever. The White House physician said earlier he was feeling "fatigued" and would be taking an antibody cocktail.
 
Mr. Trump will be transferred to a medical executive unit. Matt Nathan, who served as the director of Walter Reed and then surgeon general during the Obama administration, told CBS News that the unit is run by a dedicated staff of doctors, nurses and technicians who will switch over from their daily duties to care for the president. It has communications, eating facilities, Secret Service spaces, lodging for family members and office space.

Mr. Trump stunned the world when he announced early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19. Their test results came hours after news broke that top adviser Hope Hicks tested positive for the virus.

Vice President Mike Pence, who would take over for Mr. Trump if he was incapacitated or deemed unable to carry out the duties of the presidency, said Friday he had tested negative for the virus. The last time the 25th Amendment, which lays out the line of succession, was invoked, was in 2007 when President George W. Bush was sedated.

Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who was with Mr. Trump at the debate on Tuesday, said Friday he and his wife had tested negative for the coronavirus. The Biden campaign halted negative ads on Friday, and Biden tweeted a call for unity.     source

WATCH: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks about Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis
Oct 2, 2020

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

House Speaker Weekly Briefing
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) held her weekly news conference with reporters on Capitol Hill. She talked about the state of COVID-19 relief talks with Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, saying she is optimistic about a future agreement, but acknowledged they were both coming from “two different places.” Speaker Pelosi also reacted to the first presidential debate, calling President Trump a “bully” and former Vice President Biden a “decent person.” She told reporters her message to the president for Election Day is, “They ain’t no light at the end of the tunnel for you in the House of Representatives…because the light at the end of the tunnel in the House is gonna be a train coming at your plan.” 

Trump Campaign Senior Adviser On The Presidential Debate

NPR's Tonya Mosley talks with Steve Cortes, a senior adviser for the Trump 2020 campaign, about how the president will defend his record in Tuesday's debate.

Sep. 28, 2020

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST:
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden go head to head tonight in the first of three debates. Elsewhere in the program, we hear from Democratic Sen. Chris Coons, who is a close adviser to the Biden campaign. Now we want to talk to Steve Cortes. He's a senior adviser to the Trump campaign.

Steve, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.

STEVE CORTES: Thank you so much for having me. And - funny - I literally just passed by Sen. Coons, so...
MOSLEY: Oh, really?

CORTES: We were - yeah, at the debate site - kind of funny.
MOSLEY: Funny coincidence - yes, so the president will have one of the biggest audiences of the campaign, an audience that will extend beyond the core supporters. He's been out in front of folks at rallies and other campaign events. What is the message he wants to convey to the American people?

CORTES: The biggest message is on the economy. The president will very rightly boast about the economy both that he built previously before the pandemic and the one that is reasserting right now. It's the No. 1 issue by all relevant polling. It's the No. 1 issue on voters' minds. It's also the issue on which he has the biggest lead over Joe Biden in polling. But most importantly, I just think it's the most compelling issue for effectively rehiring him as our national CEO for another four years. The economy he built in the first three years of administration combined with what's going on right now - we can't just talk about...  more

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