Washington, DC, records its highest number of daily coronavirus cases in more than four months. / WAMU Several members of the Pentagon's senior leadership are quarantining after a top Coast Guard official tests positive. / CNN President Trump says he won’t negotiate a new fiscal stimulus package, then reverses.
The US has reported more than 97,000 new cases of COVID-19 since the news of President Trump’s positive test. / Vox Meanwhile, the White House is doing almost nothing to investigate its outbreak. / The New York Times The White House blocks new FDA guidelines on bringing potential vaccines
Yesterday, Trump took a brief motorcade with two Secret Service members to wave to supporters outside Walter Reed hospital. / BuzzFeed News A Walter Reed attending physician: "Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They
Please note: We chose to delay yesterday's newsletter until today, now that it appears the news regarding Trump's condition has slowed a bit. Trump’s medical team says the president has had two concerning drops in oxygen levels, but may be discharged from Walter Reed as
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have contracted the novel coronavirus. / Vox The news arrives just hours after reports surfaced that Hope Hicks, one of Trump’s closest aides, tested positive for the virus as well. / CNBC A list of other world leaders who have contracted the virus.
Democrats had a fundraising spike following Biden's debate with Trump, receiving close to $8 million between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. / CNBC On Wednesday, Fox & Friends hosts and guests offered pointers to Trump for the next debate—probably since there was a good chance the
Biden and Trump’s first debate is a fiasco, where Trump, “nothing short of a horror show,” stood by white supremacists and sowed doubt about election integrity. / USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times Not to forget: Trump emphasized his hunger for a rushed, election-eve vaccine approval.
More than one million people worldwide have now died from COVID-19, and many regions are still reporting surges of new infections. / BBC Of the one million deaths, one in five victims was an American. / The Washington Post See also: Based on an average over the past month, more than
Every president since the mid-1970s has made his tax information public. Trump’s returns, recently leaked, show chronic losses and years of tax avoidance. / The New York Times Related: “I Paid More in Taxes than Donald Trump” stickers. / Twitter A brief profile of the registered Democrat who runs the
The White House is expected to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to fill fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. / The Washington Post Operation Warp Speed is the White House's best attempt at fighting coronavirus. Trump can't seem to help
