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9:35 AM ET, October 5, 2020

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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Didn't Disclose First Positive Covid-19 Test While Awaiting a Second Test on Thursday  —  President received positive result on Thursday evening before making an appearance on Fox News in which he didn't reveal those results  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump didn't disclose a positive result …
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New York Times:
As Trump Seeks to Project Strength, Doctors Disclose Alarming Episodes  —  The president made a surprise outing from his hospital bed in an effort to show his improvement, but the murky and shifting narrative of his illness was rewritten again with grim new details.
New York Times:
Use of Dexamethasone to Treat Trump Suggests Severe Covid-19, Experts Say  —  Many of the measures cited by his doctors are reserved for patients severely affected by the coronavirus.  —  President Trump's doctors offered rosy assessments of his condition on Sunday, but the few medical details …
Discussion: Associated Press, Fox News and Politico
Axios:
West Wing melts down as aides point fingers at Mark Meadows  —  White House crises of competence and credibility grew during a botched weekend that left even White House aides dismayed and befuddled.  —  Many complained bitterly about the leadership of chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
At the White House, an Eerie Quiet and Frustration With the Chief of Staff  —  With President Trump hospitalized, Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, delivered no guidance to aides about how they were expected to behave in a moment of crisis.  —  WASHINGTON — In a memo …
Discussion: Raw Story, Eschaton and CNN
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
‘That should never have happened’: Inside Trump's Walter Reed parade  —  Trump surprises crowd with drive-by outside Walter Reed  —  (CNN)Pacing the well-appointed presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center between intravenous doses of remdesivir and near-hourly checks of his vitals …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Politico:
President Pelosi?  Pence prepares to risk it all for Trump  —  He's the GOP's one line of defense between a hospitalized commander-in-chief and a President Nancy Pelosi, and he's about to depart Washington on a four-day campaign swing in the middle of his boss's health crisis.
CNN:
Trump told Woodward in March he didn't have ‘a lot of time’ to meet with Fauci in newly released audio  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump in March said he didn't have “a lot of time” to meet with Dr. Anthony Fauci as the coronavirus pandemic surged across the US …
Fox News:
Meadows ‘optimistic’ Trump will leave Walter Reed, return to White House Monday after coronavirus treatment  —  Trump spent the weekend at Walter Reed being treated for coronavirus  —  What more progress does Trump need to make to be discharged?  —  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows …
Washington Post:
Prospect of Trump's early hospital discharge mystifies doctors  —  They say he is in a particularly vulnerable window for covid-19 patients and should be watched closely while taking an unusual combination of drugs.  —  The assertion by President Trump's doctors that he could be discharged …
Discussion: The Hill and Towleroad Gay News
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Coronavirus Spread  —  It might have been avoided if White House officials had worn masks and relied on more-sensitive tests.  —  White House chief of staff Mark Meadows started Friday by briefing reporters with his face uncovered.  He ended it wearing an N95 mask while escorting President Trump to the hospital.
Andrew Joseph / STAT:
'There's a disconnect': Outside medical experts question the upbeat portrayal of president's condition
Discussion: Axios, CNN, Bloomberg and The Slot
Washington Post:
National security experts describe a distracted and potentially vulnerable country
Discussion: Political Wire
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump criticized by medical experts after leaving hospital to drive by supporters
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
The president is sick but his followers feel great
Washington Post:
President's blood oxygen levels dropped twice in recent days, doctors say
New York Post:
Trump supporters close 5th Ave. to support COVID-19-stricken president
Discussion: Breitbart
Washington Post:
White House physician Sean Conley draws scrutiny for rosy assessments of Trump's health
Discussion: New York Times, The Guardian and NPR
Politico:
Republicans gripped by dread as multiple crises swirl  —  On Sunday evening Sen. Lindsey Graham, like many Republicans in Washington, was simultaneously monitoring three political crises, all of which were made worse by the spread of coronavirus infections through the upper echelons of the Republican Party.
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Axios:
The blue money wave in Senate races
Discussion: Washington Post
David Folkenflik / NPR:
VOA White House Reporter Investigated For Anti-Trump Bias By Political Appointees  —  Toggle more options  —  Two political appointees at the federal agency that oversees the Voice of America recently investigated one of its most prominent journalists to make the case he was biased against President Trump.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
How to Cover a Sick Old Man  —  The president is hospitalized and reporters are fighting for basic facts.  What should elderly leaders — many of America's top politicians are over 80 — reveal about their health?  —  When John Bresnahan was starting out as a reporter in the mid-1990s …
Matthew Herper / STAT:
The lesson from Trump catching Covid-19: With this virus, there are no magic bullets  —  What lessons should we learn from the fact that the president of the United States has caught Covid-19?  —  There is one simple one, which the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, keeps teaching …
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Anthony Giannini / whitehousegiftshop.com:
“President Donald J. Trump Defeats COVID”  —  First 1,000 Orders Receive a Complimentary Presidential Blue Mask with Coin!  —  Note from Designer & Series Creator: Anthony Giannini, CEO, USAF-R  —  For these past four years, I have created and co-designed the Historic Moments …
Discussion: Twitchy, Raw Story and HillReporter.com
Ti-Hua Chang / TYT Network:
EPA Grants Oklahoma Control Over Tribal Lands  —  Agency Decision Reverses Tribal Sovereignty That Was Recognized in Landmark Supreme Court Ruling  —  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted the state of Oklahoma regulatory control over environmental issues on nearly all tribal lands there, TYT has learned.
 
 
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Bill Scher / Real Clear Politics:
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Associated Press:
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Beth LeBlanc / The Detroit News:
After high court decision, Michigan AG will not enforce COVID orders
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Andrew Seidman / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Rural Pennsylvania voters don't hate Biden as much as they hated Clinton — and Trump may need them to
Kristin Urquiza / Washington Post:
I sat in the front row at the debate. Did Trump infect me with the coronavirus?
Discussion: NPR
 

 
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