memeorandum: Biden himself should address the Tara Reade allegations and release relevant records (Washington Post)

9:05 PM ET, April 29, 2020

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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:

Trump erupts at campaign manager as reelection stress overflows — (CNN)As he huddled with advisers on Friday evening, President Donald Trump was still fuming over his sliding poll numbers and the onslaught of criticism he was facing for suggesting a day earlier that ingesting disinfectant might prove effective against coronavirus.

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New York Times:

Polls Had Trump Stewing, and Lashing Out at His Own Campaign — The president erupted recently at his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, after seeing polling data that showed Mr. Trump trailing Joe Biden in several states. — Frustrated by a faltering economy that is out of his control …

Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:

Trump presented with grim internal polling showing him losing to Biden — President Trump's advisers presented him with the results of internal polling last week that showed him falling behind former vice president Joe Biden in key swing states in the presidential race …

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Washington Post:

Biden himself should address the Tara Reade allegations and release relevant records — TARA READE deserves to be heard, and voters deserve to hear her. They deserve to hear from Joe Biden, too. — The former vice president and probable Democratic presidential nominee has yet to speak publicly …

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New York Times:

Democratic Frustration Mounts as Biden Remains Silent on Sexual Assault Allegation — Activists and women's rights advocates have urged Mr. Biden to address a former aide's allegation that he sexually assaulted her in 1993. His lack of response has angered them.

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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:

So, Tara Reade . . . For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones' newsletters. — Did Joe Biden sexually assault Tara Reade in 1993, as she claims? I don't know. As is so often the case, there were no witnesses and no physical evidence, so it's literally her word against his.

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The Daily Beast:
Why Have Women's Groups Gone Dead Silent on Biden Sex-Assault Accusation?

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Bloomberg:
Biden Accuser Leaves Democrats Struggling to Reconcile #MeToo

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BuzzFeed News:

After One Tweet To President Trump, This Man Got $69 Million From New York For Ventilators — We may all be at home, but that hasn't stopped our reporters from breaking exclusive stories like this one. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today.

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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:

Gilead says early results of coronavirus drug trial show improvement with shorter remdesivir treatment — Gilead said preliminary results of a coronavirus drug trial showed at least 50% of patients treated with a five-day dosage of remdesivir improved. — Dr. Fauci's positive comments …

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Erika Edwards / NBC News:
‘Clear-cut’ evidence coronavirus drug remdesivir works, Fauci says

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STAT:
Critical study of Gilead's Covid-19 drug shows patients are responding to treatment, NIH says

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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: F.D.A. Plans to Announce Emergency Use of New Drug After a Trial Showed Shortened Recovery

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Kathleen McGrory / Tampa Bay Times:

Florida medical examiners were releasing coronavirus death data. The state made them stop. — When the medical examiners' list was available, it showed more deaths than the state's count. — State officials have stopped releasing the list of coronavirus deaths being compiled …

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CNN:

GOP senator gives activists grim 2020 assessment amid fears over holding Senate — (CNN)Sen. David Perdue, a Georgia Republican up for reelection and a close Trump confidant, issued a blunt warning to GOP activists during an off-the-record conference call this week: Democrats are in position to turn his state blue and take the Senate.

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Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:

The Blood on de Blasio's Hands — He bungled his COVID-19 response, plunging the city into a charnel. Now he is blaming the Jews.

Discussion: Instapundit

New York Times:
De Blasio Breaks Up Rabbi's Funeral and Lashes Out Over Virus Distancing

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Batya Ungar-Sargon / The Forward:
De Blasio is stoking anti-Semitism. He's not alone.

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New York Times:

Trump Appointees Manipulated Agency's Payday Lending Research, Ex-Staffer Claims — A former economist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accused Trump appointees of steering the bureau's reversal on payday lending rules to gut a key provision. — Last summer, on his final …

Discussion: Raw Story

New York Times:

U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported, C.D.C. Data Suggests — Total deaths in seven states that have been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic are nearly 50 percent higher than normal for the five weeks from March 8 through April 11, according to new death statistics …

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Emma Tucker / The Daily Beast:

Jared Kushner Calls Coronavirus Response ‘a Great Success Story’ as Death Toll Nears 60,000 — UM, WHAT?! — President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who has been largely absent amid the coronavirus crisis in recent weeks, said on Wednesday that “this is a great success story” …

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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Kushner predicts much of the country will be ‘back to normal’ in June

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Bloomberg:

Trump's ‘Operation Warp Speed’ Aims to Rush Coronavirus Vaccine — Secret project has goal of 100 million doses by year's end — Fauci has said vaccine will take 12 to 18 months to develop — The Trump administration is quietly organizing a Manhattan Project-style effort …

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Pete Williams / NBC News:

Appeals court, in blow to Kobach, strikes down Kansas law requiring proof of citizenship to vote — Advocates hailed the ruling, a setback for former GOP secretary of state Kris Kobach, as a big win for ballot access. — WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional …

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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org: Breaking: In Major Decision Rejecting Kris Kobach's Claims of Massive Voter Fraud, Tenth Circuit …

Wall Street Journal:

Joe Grogan to Resign as Top White House Domestic Policy Adviser — The head of the president's Domestic Policy Council has played a key role in the coronavirus response — WASHINGTON—Top White House policy adviser Joe Grogan is leaving his post, the latest sign of turnover as the administration grapples with a coronavirus pandemic.

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Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:

Economists agree: No quick rebound from recession is likely — WASHINGTON (AP) — Devastated by the coronavirus, the U.S. economy is sinking. And the plunge is accelerating. — Now, as some businesses in a few states start to trickle back to work, hopes are beginning to arise that the economy …

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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:

The Stories Dan Crenshaw Tells Himself — The pathos of Trump's most effective defender. — In a new book out this month, a Republican member of Congress offers one of the most brutal and surgical eviscerations of President Trump's leadership style that has been put to print.

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Amanda Mull / The Atlantic:

Georgia's Experiment in Human Sacrifice — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — At first, Derek Canavaggio thought he would be able to ride out the coronavirus pandemic at home until things were safe.

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Daniel Lippman / Politico:

Bolton book release pushed back again, to late June — The publication of former Trump national security adviser John Bolton's tell-all book has been pushed back again to at least late June, according to a notice from Amazon.com, amid an extensive prepublication review by the National Security Council.

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CNN:

Meat plant workers to Trump: Employees aren't going to show up — New York (CNN Business)Meat-processing plant workers are concerned about President Donald Trump's executive order that compels plants to remain open during the coronavirus pandemic. Meat plant employees are among America's …

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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:

Seven States Restrict Mail-In Voting on the Basis of Age. That's Unconstitutional. — The 26th Amendment takes on newfound importance in the pandemic. … The 26th Amendment is often viewed as a relic of the Vietnam War era, when 18-year-olds protested the fact that they were old enough to be drafted but not to cast a ballot.

The Daily Beast:

Trump Encouraged Sean Hannity to Go After the New York Times — Trump thought it was a good idea for Hannity to explore legal action against the news outlet for its critical coverage of how Fox News handled the coronavirus crisis. — Over the past month, as Fox News personality Sean Hannity seethed …

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Isabel Holloway / emersonpolling.com:

April National Poll: Trump Down But Not Out, as Enthusiasm and Expectation Favor the President — A new Emerson College Polling national poll finds President Trump's approval rating at 41% approval, with 50% disapproval. This indicates a 5 point swing in both directions since March …

W.J. Hennigan / TIME:

Trump Says U.S. Will Run 5 Million Daily Virus Tests ‘Very Soon.’ His Testing Chief Says That's Impossible — President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that the U.S. will be able to carry out five million coronavirus tests per day, but the top official overseeing testing strategy told TIME earlier …

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Inquirer News:

Tests in recovered patients in S. Korea found false positives, not reinfections, experts say — SEOUL — South Korea's infectious disease experts said Thursday that dead virus fragments were the likely cause of over 260 people here testing positive again for the novel coronavirus days and even weeks after marking full recoveries.

Sean Davis / The Federalist:

Explosive New Flynn Documents Show FBI Goal Was To ‘Get Him Fired’ — Handwritten notes from the FBI that had been withheld from Michael Flynn and his defense team show that the FBI's goal in investigating and ambushing Flynn was ‘to get him fired.’ — New documents filed under seal …

Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press:

Edwards wins Trump praise, irritation from GOP lawmakers — BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's Republican state lawmakers are considering the extraordinary step of trying to override Gov. John Bel Edwards' emergency decision-making, even as President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised …

Discussion: Associated Press and Florida Politics

Joe Walsh / Washington Post:

You can't win, Justin Amash. You can only help Trump get reelected. — We both came in with the tea party wave. Reelecting this president isn't the way to go out. — President Trump is everything our Founders feared. He routinely misleads or outright lies to the American people …

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Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:

Sen. Josh Hawley Is Cast as a GOP Leader After Trump. But Like Trump, He's a Faux-Populist. — Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images — What if Donald Trump loses in November, but the Republicans come back in 2024 with a smarter, slicker, savvier version of Trump?

Christina Maxouris / CNN:

US could be in for ‘a bad fall and a bad winter’ if it's unprepared for a second wave of coronavirus, Fauci warns — (CNN)A second round of the coronavirus is “inevitable,” the nation's top infectious disease doctor says, but just how bad it is will depend on the progress the US makes in the coming months.

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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:

Over 70% of tested inmates in federal prisons have COVID-19 — WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Fleming never got to say goodbye to his father. He didn't know his dad was fading away on a ventilator, diagnosed with coronavirus at the federal prison where he was serving time for a drug charge.