Inside Out: The major television networks stayed outside of an indoor Trump rally in Nevada yesterday that violated the state’s edict against gatherings of 50 or more people. The event was still covered by the White House pool that consists of about a dozen people.

  Thousands of Trump supporters attended the event without wearing masks, with the exception of those behind Trump who wore them, creating an illusion of regard for the pandemic. Trump praised the man who loaned his industrial building for the event.

  Nevada’s Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak said, “This is an insult to every Nevadan who has followed the directives, made sacrifices and put their neighbors before themselves.”

  Tim Murtaugh, a campaign spokesman, defended the indoor setting, saying in a statement, “If you can join tens of thousands of people protesting in the streets, gamble in a casino, or burn down small businesses in riots, you can gather peacefully under the First Amendment to hear from the president of the United States.”

Eight More Years: President Trump told a crowd in Nevada Saturday night that he might be entitled to a third term in office because of what he believes to have been shabby treatment in his first four years. “Fifty-two days from now, we’re going to win Nevada, and we’re going to win four more years in the White House,” Trump said to cheers Saturday from the crowd at the Minden-Tahoe Airport. “And then, after that, we’ll negotiate, right? Because we’re probably — based on the way we were treated — we’re probably entitled to another four after that.”

  It’s not the first time he’s suggested it.

  Despite Trump’s fumbling of the coronavirus pandemic, his representatives were on the Sunday morning talk shows defending how he lied to the public even though he knew the virus was five times more deadly than the flu. 

  White House trade adviser, Peter Navarro, claimed on CNN  that “nobody knew” how dangerous the virus was when Trump spoke to Woodward in February and March. But in fact Navarro warned administration officials in January that the virus could cost the US trillions of dollars and that millions of Americans were at risk of infection or death.

  As of this morning, 194,084 Americans are dead of the virus.

  New Yorker editor David Remnick writes, “If Donald Trump possessed a soul, a trace of conscience or character, he would resign the Presidency. He will not resign the Presidency.”

  Remnick says, “Flagrantly corrupt and instinctually autocratic, he immediately set about threatening democratic values and the rule of law, while encouraging autocrats abroad and white nationalists at home.” He says, “It is a painful thing to say, but the evidence assaults us daily: Trump is a miserable human being.” 

Money Where His Mouth Is: New York’s billionaire former mayor Mike Bloomberg says he’s going to spend $100 million of his own money this fall to persuade Florida voters to vote for Joe Biden for president.

  It’s difficult, if not impossible for a Republican to win the presidency without Florida. Bloomberg’s money injection would force Trump to spend more time and money on Florida, possibly losing his grip on other states. Trump in a tweet dismissed Bloomberg as “mini-Mike.”

Politics and Fire: Trump visits fire-ravaged California today highlighting the climate change debate. California officials have said the fires have become increasingly serious every year because of climate warming. Trump is a climate change denier.

Ambush: Two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies were seriously wounded in an ambush attack Saturday night. Video shows a man walking up to their parked vehicle and firing through the passenger-side window. One officer was hit in the face, the other more directly in the head. Protesters at the emergency room shouted, “We hope they die!”

  After the officers spent hours in surgery, “It looks like they’re going to be able to recover,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva said yesterday afternoon.

The Sports Page: Naomi Osaka of Japan beat Victoria Azarenka to win her second US Open and third Grand Slam title.

  She made news during the tournament wearing masks featuring names of victims of racial violence and police shootings: Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Elijah McClain. 

  Osaka’s father is Haitian, her mother Japanese and was raised for part of her life in the US. She identifies as Japanese, not American, and black. 

The Obit Page: Shere Hite, the author who both shocked and improved the Western world with the notion that women don’t need men to have good sex, has died at age 77.

  Hite’s book “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality,” published in 1976, liberated women from the faked orgasm and told them they had a right to pleasure. It has sold 48 million copies in scores of languages.

  Her research was based upon interviews and information from 3,000 women. Hite wrote, “Researchers should stop telling women what they should feel sexually and start asking them what they do feel sexually.” She did.

The Big Sleep: At least 13 coffins believed to contain human mummies have been pulled from a well in Egypt where they had been deposited for more than 2,500 years.

  It’s not unheard of to discover new mummies in Egypt, but it’s cause for excitement every time.

  The sarcophagi were uncovered last week during a dig in the Saqqara necropolis, an ancient burial ground about 20 miles south of Cairo.  Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said the coffins were stacked one on top of the other and buried 40 feet down. The coffins are so well preserved that the original design and paint are clearly visible.

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