Death Takes a Holiday: On a holiday weekend dedicated to the war dead during which pandemic deaths reached toward 100,000, President Trump went golfing, skipped church despite claiming its importance to the country, tweeted personal insults about his political rivals, and pressed his accusation that a popular television host committed murder.

  Trump tweeted — untruthfully —  “Cases, numbers and deaths are going down all over the Country!”

  This morning, 97,722 Americans are dead of the virus, 1,715 of them in the past two days. While the rate of deaths has been declining, the coronavirus is still spreading at epidemic rates in 24 states, according to researchers at Imperial College London. 

  “There’s evidence that the US is not under control, as an entire country,” said Samir Bhatt, a senior lecturer in geostatistics at Imperial College. As Americans party on in large crowds in some areas of the country this weekend, Bhatt says the death rate in California and Florida could spike to roughly 1,000 a day by July. 

  But Trump is trying to convince Americans the crisis is fading. The Washington Post says, “The choice to return to the golf course was one of the clearest symbols yet of how Trump is trying to turn the page on a public health crisis that has damaged his standing nationally and may imperil his reelection chances.”

  Trump was also attempting to divert attention to the fable that voter fraud is a national problem. He said the Democrats are trying to rig the fall election. “The United States cannot have all Mail In Ballots,” he tweeted. “It will be the greatest Rigged Election in history. People grab them from mailboxes, print thousands of forgeries and ‘force’ people to sign.”

  It has never happened on a scale that made a difference to an election. 

  The President has been flailing and flogging his pet conspiracies this weekend. “A lot of interest in this story about Psycho Joe Scarborough,” he tweeted.  In 2001 when MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was a member of Congress, an intern named Lori Klausutis was found dead in the office. An autopsy showed that Klausutis had an undiagnosed heart condition that may have caused her to faint, hitting her head on a desk.

 Yet Trump tweeted, “I would think there is a lot more to this story than that? An affair? What about the so-called investigator?” He said, “Big topic of discussion in Florida.” 

  No, it isn’t.

The Bulletin Board: A federal judge has gutted a Florida law that would require all convicted felons to pay their court fines and fees before they are allowed to vote. The judge says Florida doesn’t have the authority to do that in federal elections. — President Trump has blocked entry to the US by people coming from Brazil. They are now second in the world for coronavirus with 363,000 cases and 22,666 deaths. — A prototype vaccine has protected monkeys from the coronavirus, researchers reported last week, giving encouragement that a vaccine for humans is possible.

Family Values: Once upon a time there was a bus accident in Chicago after which people climbed on the bus after the impact to claim they had been injured. 

  So it is with the late millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. By the latest count, 130 people have come forward to say they are his secret love child, claiming a portion of his $634 million estate. As they say, bachelors have no children to speak of.

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