10/05/2020

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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



10/04/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Oct 4, 2020

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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
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.

10/03/2020

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

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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

10/02/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | 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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Oct. 2, 2020

10/01/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Oct 1, 2020

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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.
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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


9/30/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 30, 2020

 

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
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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.

9/29/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 29, 2020

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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.

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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

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.
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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.