Vanity Fair - Inside Donald Trump and Jared Kushner’s Two Months of Magical Thinking
Obsessed with impeachment and their enemies and worried about the stock market, the president and his son-in-law scapegoated HHS Secretary Alex Azar, and treated the coronavirus as mostly a political problem as it moved through the country.
The Daily Beast - Jared Kushner Calls Coronavirus Response ‘a Great Success Story’ as Death Toll Nears 60,000
Trump erupts at campaign manager as reelection stress overflows - CNNPolitics
Trump wants to get back his rallies ASAP.
Trump hopes for "massive" rallies of "25,000" this year - CBS News
Obsessed with impeachment and their enemies and worried about the stock market, the president and his son-in-law scapegoated HHS Secretary Alex Azar, and treated the coronavirus as mostly a political problem as it moved through the country.
The Daily Beast - Roger Stone Told Julian Assange He Was Lobbying for Him at ‘the Highest Levels,’ New FBI Disclosures ShowThe same day, Trump finally pushed Azar aside and put vice president Mike Pence in charge of the White House’s coronavirus task force. According to a source, Trump had considered other candidates—former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Birx, and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb—but he told people that bringing in a credentialed outsider would signal a larger concern about the virus. “It’s going to make the issue bigger than it needs to be,” he said to an adviser. He also knew that Pence could be controlled. “Trump trusts Pence almost more than anyone,” a former White House official said. In the West Wing, Trump often belittles Pence in front of others. “Pence lives in mortal fear of being booted off the ticket. Trump constantly reminds Mike that he almost didn’t choose him,” a Republican that heard Trump make the comments told me.
The Daily Beast - Jared Kushner Calls Coronavirus Response ‘a Great Success Story’ as Death Toll Nears 60,000
Trump erupts at campaign manager as reelection stress overflows - CNNPolitics
The Washington Post - Trump presented with grim internal polling showing him losing to BidenWithin moments, the President was shouting -- not at the aides in the room, but into the phone -- at his campaign manager Brad Parscale, three people familiar with the matter told CNN. Shifting the blame away from himself, Trump berated Parscale for a recent spate of damaging poll numbers, even at one point threatening to sue Parscale. It's not clear how serious the President's threat of a lawsuit was.
Trump wants to get back his rallies ASAP.
Trump hopes for "massive" rallies of "25,000" this year - CBS News
"Hopefully in the not too distant future we'll have some massive rallies and people will be sitting next to each other. I can't imagine a rally where you have every fourth seat full, every six seats are empty for every one that you have full, that wouldn't look too good. No, I hope that we're going to be able to do some good old fashioned 25,000-person rallies where everyone's going wild because they love our country," the president told reporters during a business roundtable discussion.