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On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered a typically over-the-top boast during his debate against Joe Biden: “I’m the one that brought back football.” He must have been yearning for a return to normalcy—for packed Big Ten football stadiums filled with fans overstuffed and often over-lubricated from a morning of maskless tailgating.

The president was in denial, and now his sunny assessment of the situation is disproven.

Here’s what we know so far: President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday. He’s experiencing “mild” symptoms, according to the White House, though these were apparently significant enough to prevent him from participating in a phone call that was the only official event on his Friday schedule. First lady Melania Trump, who is also quarantining herself, announced that she had also tested positive and was symptomatic. A wave of high-level government officials who came in... Читать дальше...

Late Thursday evening, President Trump (or possibly NBA reporter Shams Charania) broke the news that both he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Just a few days ago, Trump flashily procured a mask from his jacket pocket during his debate with Biden to indicate his openness to wearing one. “I put a mask on when I think I need it,” he said grandly. But a few hours after a high-dollar fundraiser at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday, the White House announced that Trump and Melania had both tested positive for Covid-19. At the event, Trump and more than a few attendees had naturally gone unmasked, and it wasn’t the first time. Читать дальше...

Two days ago, standing on the debate stage with Joe Biden, President Trump repeatedly downplayed the severity of Covid-19. He blew past the fact that more than 200,000 Americans have died from the pandemic in the past year, dismissed the recommendations of top scientists, and mocked his opponent for wearing a face mask. “I don’t wear face masks like him,” Trump said of Biden. “Every time you see him, he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away … and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.”

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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a Spanish Civil War veteran from Florida named John Hovan enlisted in the Navy, serving for three and a half years before he received an honorable discharge. After the war, Hovan worked as a civilian shoe repairman at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island, until one day he was abruptly fired. “This ship’s service officer came to me and said he had to tell me something,” Hovan told me in 2009. “‘Look, I’ve gotten orders to fire you, to let you go... Читать дальше...

The specter of deep state conspiracies against President Trump has long been a key rhetorical and political weapon in the arsenal of the Trump White House. 

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has, unsurprisingly, intensified conversations in Democratic circles about the structural obstacles that a Biden presidency would inevitably face. Whether or not Biden chooses to acknowledge as much, passing, implementing, and defending the major items of his policy agenda will require, at minimum, eliminating the Senate filibuster and, most likely, reforming what will soon be a 6–3 conservative Supreme Court. As helpful as it would be for Biden to make a public case for these proposals himself... Читать дальше...

According to Friday’s official jobs report—the last one that the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release before November’s election—the economy added around 661,000 jobs in September. Since unemployment is down slightly, it’s probably a safe bet that Trump will seize upon the numbers as proof of his exceptional economic stewardship, as he has in the past. (“Under this Administration, America is on track to witness the fastest labor market recovery from any economic crisis in history,” the White House announced last month... Читать дальше...