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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

Confusion mounts over Trump's true condition after doctor's Covid briefing – live

• Dr Sean Conley upbeat and says president ‘doing very well’
• Source said to be Trump chief of staff warns next 48 hours ‘critical’
• Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie confirms he has Covid
• Trump’s base stays loyal as president fights Covid
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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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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Campaign 2020
President Trump Campaign Rally in Duluth, Minnesota
President Trump delivers remarks at a rally in support of his reelection held at Duluth International Airport in Minnesota, near the state’s border with Wisconsin.

Donald Trump holds campaign rally in Duluth, Minnesota
Oct. 1, 2020
US President Donald Trump holds a "Make America Great Again" event in Duluth, Minnesota. The visit comes one day after the intense battle between the President and Joe Biden in the first of three debates set to go ahead.

Campaign Amid Alleged Worries He Will ‘Start Talking’

Oct. - After being involuntarily detained by police this weekend, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, has left the campaign to deal with “overwhelming stress,” Politico reported.

“I am stepping away from my company and any role in the campaign for the immediate future to focus on my family and get help dealing with the overwhelming stress,” he said in a statement released on Wednesday.

The Trump campaign’s communications director, Tim Murtaugh, spoke on the announcement and wished Parscale well.

"The news comes on the heels of a Wednesday report from Vanity Fair, which claimed that the Trump clan is worried that Parscale could damage the president by cooperating with law enforcement about alleged campaign finance violations. The same report said that Parscale is under investigation for stealing from both the Republican National Convention and the president’s campaign.

“The family is worried Brad will start talking,” a former White House staffer who remains close to the campaign allegedly said.
However, Murtaugh, pushed back on the claim.

“It’s utterly false. There is no investigation, no audit, and there never was,” he said"...    continue to read

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Biden: Trump "trying to scare people" into not voting
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Biden criticized the president for promoting baseless claims that voting by mail leads to widespread voter fraud, saying that the president was trying to depress the vote and discourage people from voting.

"We're going to make sure that the people who want to vote in person are able to vote," Biden said, encouraging people to turn out in person if possible. "This is all about trying to dissuade people from voting because he's trying to scare people into thinking that it's not going to be legitimate."

"He cannot stop you from being able to determine the outcome of the election," Biden continued. However, he said that if the election is conclusive, then Mr. Trump would have no choice but to leave office. "If we get the votes, it's going to be all over."
Mr. Trump continued to promote theories that there was ongoing voting fraud, even though the FBI director has said that there is currently no evidence of any effort to coordinate voter fraud.

"As far as the ballots are concerned, it's a disaster," Mr. Trump said. "This is going to be fraud like you've never seen."
He also said that "we might not know for months" what the outcome of the election will be, and suggested that the Supreme Court may have to determine the results of the election.

"I'm counting on them to look at the ballots, definitely," Mr. Trump said. If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, the court would have a 6 to 3 conservative majority.

PBS NewsHour live episode, Sep. 29, 2020
Sep. 30, 2020

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive in Cleveland for the first presidential debate

Gloves are off! Trump and Biden arrive in Cleveland to duke it out in first debate: Joe to land punches over Donald's $750 tax bill bombshell while President will bring up wayward Hunter - and brings along UFC fighter Colby Covington for support!

Sep. 29 - President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden have touched down in Cleveland for Tuesday night's first presidential debate, their first face-to-face meeting this election year.

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2 views on the judicial philosophy of SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett
29 Sep 2020
Nominating a judge to the U.S. Supreme Court is one of the most important decisions a president makes. Who is President Trump’s newest pick, Amy Coney Barrett? John Yang reports and talks to John Adams, who clerked for Judge Barrett on the federal appeals court in Chicago, and Victoria Nourse, a Georgetown Law School professor who was Joe Biden’s chief counsel when he was vice president.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, could transform the court into the most conservative since the 1930s.

Amy Coney Barrett: A Dream For The Right, Nightmare For The Left

Sep. 28 - President Trump's nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat made vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is seen as a home run for conservatives. It is a chance to move the high court in a far more aggressively conservative direction for generations.

In political terms, Barrett is the dream candidate for conservative Republicans and the nightmare candidate for Democrats.

For Republicans, the 48-year-old is a young and personally unassailable nominee.

A devout Catholic, she is the mother of seven, including a child with Down syndrome and two children she and her husband, Jesse Barrett, adopted from Haiti. She is beloved in her community and by her students at Notre Dame Law School, where she taught for 15 years; she was voted best professor three times and still teaches part time at the school.

"If you talk to students, the thing that stands out to them is that she really makes an effort to get to know them, understand them, and help them," says G. Marcus Cole, dean of the law school.     source

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US Election 2020: When are the presidential debates and how do they work?
Millions are expected to tune in as the two rivals try to win over voters in key battleground states.

When and where are they?
There will be three live TV debates pitting incumbent Mr Trump against Democratic nominee Mr Biden.

The first takes place on Tuesday night (early Wednesday morning GMT) at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Ohio is traditionally a key battleground state in the race for the White House.

The second debate will be held at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, on 15 October and the final debate takes place on 22 October at the Curb Event Center, Belmont University, in Nashville, Tennessee.

There will also be one vice presidential debate between Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and incumbent Mike Pence. That takes place on 7 October at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

WATCH LIVE: The First 2020 Presidential Debate | Special Coverage & Analysis | PBS NewsHour
Scheduled for 30 Sep 2020

The first of three 2020 presidential debates kicks off in Cleveland, Ohio, where incumbent President Donald Trump meets former Vice President Joe Biden. We begin our coverage at 6 p.m. EDT with our nightly PBS NewsHour broadcast, followed by an hour of election-related programming. At 8 p.m. EDT, NewsHour’s senior political reporter, Daniel Bush, will host a digital pre-show looking at the what to expect from the debate and talking about key issues this election cycle. At 9 p.m. EDT, the debate begins. The 90-minute debate will consist of six 15-minute segments: "The Trump and Biden Records," "The Supreme Court," "Covid-19," "The Economy," "Race and Violence in our Cities" and "The Integrity of the Election." Special coverage and analysis continues after the debate with NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff.

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Trump calls NYT report on taxes 'fake news'
President Donald Trump attacked the New York Times on Sunday after the newspaper reported that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, citing tax-return data.

Donald Trump paid just $US750 – $1070 – in tax: Report

Sep. 28 - US President Donald Trump paid just a few hundred dollars in tax in recent years, according to reports in the New York Times.

The NY Times reported Mr Trump, who is seeking re-election in November, paid just $US750 ($1070) in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, and paid no income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years.

That was despite Mr Trump receiving $US427.4 million ($607 million) in 2018 from his reality television program and other endorsement and licensing deals.

Mr Trump was able to minimise his tax bill by reporting heavy losses across his business empire.
The newspaper reported that Mr Trump claimed $US47.4 million ($67 million) in losses in 2018, despite claiming income of at least $US434.9 million ($616 million) in a financial disclosure that year.     more details

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
President Trump News Conference
President Trump held a news conference at The White House.

Donald Trump hit by stunning New York Times tax returns report – as it happened

Sep. 28 - New York Times publishes Donald Trump’s tax returns in election bombshell. The US president, a self-proclaimed billionaire, paid only $750 in federal income taxes in the year he was elected, according to a stunning New York Times investigation that could shake up the presidential election. (Six key findings from the Times’ Trump taxes bombshell.)

Donald Trump Paid Literally $0 In Tax For 10 Years, According To A Bombshell New Report

Sep. 28 - Donald Trump‘s tax returns have finally been published. Not by him, of course. Tax returns spanning more than two decades were leaked to the New York Times, and guess what: this charlatan paid just US $750 (AU $1,065) in tax returns in the year he won the US presidency.
In fact, he paid almost no income tax for the better part of two decades. The long-awaited tax returns paint a picture of someone who was better at pretending to be a successful businessman than actually making money, the New York Times said. In short: he paid zero tax for 10 of the 15 years prior to 2016 because he reported losing much, much more money than he made.    more details

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
Campaign 2020
President Trump Hosts Rally in Middletown, Pennsylvania
President Trump spoke at a campaign rally held near the state capital of Harrisburg.

Trump hosts a 'Great American Comeback' event in Pennsylvania
Sep. 27, 2020

 Waiting for Trump rally, Harrisburg crowd welcomes his Supreme Court announcement

Sep. 26 , MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — Two hours before President Donald Trump’s planned arrival for an evening rally here, hundreds of supporters had already gathered outside the hangar at Harrisburg International Airport, packing together to get as close as possible to the stage where Trump was to speak. Some wore face masks; many did not.

A giant television screen broadcast Trump’s Rose Garden appearance to announce Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his choice to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Evelyn Conahan, 74, said she was “thrilled” by Trump’s selection of Barrett.

“I know she’s conservative. She values life,” said Conahan, a retired insurance salesperson from Hanover Township, Luzerne County. Conahan and her friend, Suzanne Gillis, a retired nurse, both wore face masks bearing Trump campaign logos.

“He just wants what’s best for our country,” Conahan said of the president. “I pray for him every night. He’s being attacked from all sides.”

The rally, just over five weeks from Election Day, comes four days after Trump made a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, and as he’s increased his visits to Pennsylvania, a critical battleground state where the president has consistently trailed Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the polls.     source

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
President Trump Nominates New Justice to the Supreme Court
President Trump nominates federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

President Trump Supreme Court Nominee Announcement
Sep. 26, 2020
President Trump announces his pick to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court justice

Sep. 26 - (CNN)President Donald Trump on Saturday said he is nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative federal appeals court judge, to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court, setting off a fierce partisan battle in the waning days of a hotly contested presidential election.

Calling it a "very proud moment indeed," Trump called Barrett a woman of "towering intellect" and "unyielding loyalty to the Constitution" who would rule "based solely on the fair reading of the law."

In a flag-bedecked Rose Garden designed to mimic Ginsburg's own nomination ceremony in 1993, Trump recounted Barrett's educational and professional background, noted her seven children and hailed her ties to another late Supreme Court justice, Antonin Scalia, for whom she clerked."I looked and I studied and you are very eminently qualified for this job," Trump told his nominee. "You are going to be fantastic."

Barrett, Trump declared before an audience that included Scalia's widow, Republican senators and several figures from the conservative media, is "one of our nation's most brilliant and gifted legal minds."   continue to read