The Madness of King George: After initially dismissing the coronavirus and saying it will simply disappear, President Trump told Fox News host Chris Wallace that if you wait long enough, he’ll be right. 

  Trump said “I’ll be right eventually. I will be right eventually.” He said, “It’s going to disappear and I’ll be right.” 

  In the meantime, the US has had 3.7 million cases of  the coronavirus and 140,534 deaths.

  The President used the interview to continue spreading fearful fictions about his election opponent, Joe Biden. “Biden wants to come in and ruin our country, triple your taxes,” Trump said. “He will destroy this country, but it won’t be him. It will be the radical left. The same type ideology that took over Venezuela, one of the richest countries in the world. They now have no water, they have no food, and they have no medicine.”

  Under President Trump, roughly 50 million Americans have lost their jobs in the last four months. But he told Wallace, “I think the economy is doing very well. Now we’re coming back and we’re coming back at a level that nobody would have thought possible.”

  On the subject of renaming military bases bearing the name of Confederate generals, Trump told Wallace, “Fort Bragg is a big deal. We won two World Wars, nobody even knows General Bragg. We won two World Wars. Go to that community where Fort Bragg is, in a great state, I love that state, go to the community, say how do you like the idea of renaming Fort Bragg, and then what are we going to name it? We’re going to name it after the Reverend Al Sharpton?”

  As for the Confederate flag, Trump said, “When people proudly had their Confederate flags they’re not talking about racism. They love their flag, it represents the South. They like the South … I say it’s freedom of many things, but it’s freedom of speech.”

 Trump is lagging seriously in the polls against Joe Biden. Wallace asked whether Trump will accept the results if he loses. The President said, “No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no, and I didn’t last time either.”

Viral News: Coronavirus tests in Arizona hit a 39 percent positive rate on Saturday. It’s one of 41 states with rising cases.

  This morning, Arizona has had 143,624 cases and 2,761 deaths, 107 of them added after health officials examined medical and death records. The state was one of the last to close its economy and one of the first to reopen.

  The medical world is learning new things about the virus and how to deal with it. One theory is that the MMR (Mumps, Measles, Rubella) inoculation may be a factor in mitigating symptoms when children get the coronavirus. According to the American society for microbiology, “The milder symptoms seen in the 955 sailors on the U.S.S Roosevelt who tested positive for COVID-19 (only one hospitalization) may have been a consequence of the fact that the MMR vaccinations are given to all U.S. Navy recruits.” 

  Researchers say it might be wise for adults to get an MMR shot — it would be harmless and might mitigate symptoms of coronavirus.

Police Blotter: The son of a federal judge was killed and her husband wounded yesterday when a gunman opened fire at their New Jersey home. The gunman was described as being in a Federal Express uniform.

  It’s unknown who the target was. Salas’s son Daniel and husband, Mark Anderl,

a defense lawyer, opened the door together. Salas was in the basement at the time.

  It’s been a violent weekend.  Three friends who had gone fishing at a Florida lake were inexplicably killed in what local sheriff Grady Judd called “a horrific scene.”  He described it as “a massacre.”

  Police say they believe two of the fishing friends arrived at the location to find one of their part already under attack. One was able to call his father for help, but died after his father arrived.

  one man was fatally injured and eight others wounded yesterday when three heavily armed men opened fire on a busy street in the Columbia Heights area of Northwest Washington. 

  In Peoria, Illinois, an incident involving multiple shooters on the waterfront left 13 people wounded.

Press Time: Two notable journalists resigned last week over what they said was the liberal political orthodoxy at their publications; Andrew Sullivan from New York Magazine, and Bari Weiss, from The NY Times.

   Sullivan identifies himself as a conservative, but would vote for Donald Trump. He wrote about New York that, “They seem to believe, and this is increasingly the orthodoxy in mainstream media, that any writer not actively committed to critical theory in questions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity is actively, physically harming co-workers merely by existing in the same virtual space. Actually attacking, and even mocking, critical theory’s ideas and methods, as I have done continually in this space, is therefore out of sync with the values of Vox Media. That, to the best of my understanding, is why I’m out of here.”

  Weiss, a columnist for the Times, said that “A new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.” 

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