Daily Digest for October 5, 2020 Posted at 7:45 a.m. by Michael Olson |
Good morning. “It’s been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about COVID,” President Trump said, standing in his hospital room in a video posted on social media. “I learned it by really going to school.”
He added, “I get it, and I understand it."
Before the video was posted, the infected president cruised by supporters in his bulletproof SUV, windows rolled up, driven by Secret Service agents in protective gear who were potentially exposed to the disease that has swept through the White House in recent days.
“This is insanity,” tweeted Dr. James P. Phillips, an attending physician at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where Trump has been hospitalized since Friday evening.
“Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days.They might get sick. They may die," the doctor wrote. “For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater.” -- Associated Press
Report: Trump kept quiet about 1st positive COVID-19 test When President Trump called into Fox News on Thursday night and confirmed that his close aide Hope Hicks tested positive for COVID-19, he didn't mention that he also had a positive result from a rapid test and was awaiting results from a more reliable screening, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday , citing several people familiar with the matter. Trump told Fox host Sean Hannity he had been tested and would get the results back "either tonight or tomorrow morning." Early Friday morning, Trump tweeted that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for coronavirus. Trump reportedly told an unidentified adviser that his aides should keep their positive test results to themselves, saying, "Don't tell anyone." -- The Wall Street Journal
Minnesota congressmen flew Delta after flying with Trump Three Minnesota congressmen are facing backlash over taking a commercial flight home from Washington, D.C., on Friday night just two days after they shared Air Force One with President Donald Trump. -- Associated Press
Vote on Minnesota Supreme Court seat overshadowed by other races Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice Paul Thissen is trying to retain the seat he was appointed to in 2018. His challenger is Michelle MacDonald, a controversial lawyer who is making her fourth bid for the court.
This is the first time Thissen will face voters as a Supreme Court justice, but it’s not the first time he’s faced voters. Before he was appointed to the court two years ago by then-Gov. Mark Dayton, Thissen had a long run as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He served from 2003 to 2018, including a stint as speaker of the House. -- Tim Pugmire, MPR News
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