The Campaign: With President Trump refusing to take part in a virtual event, the presidential debate commission cancelled next week’s debate and President Trump plans to campaign today at the White House.

  Still recovering from the coronavirus, Trump has invited thousands of people to a rally using the White House as a campaign stage. Covita will speak. Trump claimed in an interview on Fox News that he is “medication free” and good to go.

  Still campaigning against his opponent of four years ago, Trump ordered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to release more of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Clinton, remember, was secretary of state before she ran for president. “We’ve got the emails,” Pompeo said on Fox News. “We’re getting them out. We’re going to get all this information out so the American people can see it.” The issue four years ago was that Clinton had done State Department business over private email. 

  Trump hopes the emails will hurt Joe Biden, but his efforts to slime the former vice president are having little effect. Biden’s approval rating and lead in national polls have only risen to levels that may be insurmountable this late in the game.

Viral News: A debate between South Carolina’s Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and his Democratic opponent Jamie Harrison was reformatted after Graham refused to take a coronavirus test before the event. The candidates instead spent 30 minutes each answering questions separately.

  The US recorded more than 56,000 new cases of the coronavirus yesterday, a rising trend of 12 percent. Total deaths are 213,795. 

Windfall: In its continuing reports about President Trump’s taxes and finances, The NY Times reports that as money for his self-financed presidential campaign dwindled, he engineered a $21 million windfall from a Las Vegas hotel he co-owns with his friend the casino mogul Phil Ruffin.

  The paper says that although they are not able to make the direct connection, the windfall coincided with Trump injecting a final $10 million into his campaign.

  The President has refused to reveal his tax returns or the fine details of his business dealings. White House spokesman, Judd Deere, called the article “yet another politically motivated hit piece inaccurately smearing a standard business deal,” the Times reports.

The Talking Man: With the pandemic still growing and the economy struggling, President Trump spent two hours on the phone yesterday talking to conservative Radio Host Rush Limbaugh.

  Among other things, he said the slogan “Black lives matter”  is “a very bad term, for Blacks,” and about Iran, “If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.”

  He is known to talk when things need to get done. Olivia Troye, who until July was Mike Pence’s homeland security adviser and top aide on the coronavirus task force, says Trump would interrupt task force meeting with irrelevant rants about extraneous matters, including his coverage on Fox News.

  Troye, who resigned, now describes moments when they were opening a task force meeting and Trump would ask, “Did anybody watch Tucker Carlson yesterday?” and go off about it for 45 minutes talking about how upset he was. Troye said, “I remember him tasking Hope Hicks or saying to Kellyanne Conway, ‘Who is going to take care of this? Who is going to call them?’” She said, I remember looking down at my watch [and thinking], ‘Are we going to get through anything about these decisions that need to be made?’” 

The Bulletin Board: A federal judge in Texas has blocked the governor’s order to limit ballot dropoff boxes to only one per county. — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, one of the Trump associates who contracted the coronavirus, has entered his second week in the hospital. — As many as 10,000 minks on fur farms in in Utah and Wisconsin have died of the coronavirus.

The Obit Page: The New York Yankees’ Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher Whitey Ford, considered the greatest thrower the team ever had, has died at age 91.

  In the days of Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Billy Martin, Ford joined the Yankees in 1950 when he was 21 and spent 16 summers in Yankee pinstripes. Pitching for 11 pennant-winning teams and six World Series champions. 

  He later admitted that it wasn’t all athletic prowess. He knew how to make a mudball, coat his fingers with various substances, and he had a ring with a rasp on it that scraped the ball and made it fly erratically. 

Pray for Him: Televangelist Kenneth Copeland of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, who’s already worth $760 million, says you should send him money  because Jesus wants him to be the first billionaire preacher. “Jesus has given me so much.” Copeland said, “Now if he can give me just a little bit more.” 

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