Trump news — live: President’s Covid tweet flagged by Twitter for misinformation, as Dr Fauci hits back over campaign ad clip
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Donald Trump has told Fox News that he is now ‘immune’ from Covid after his recovery — despite multiple recorded cases around the world of re-infection.
Twitter has flagged a tweet from the president claiming his immunity and that he cannot infect other people. The tech giant has said the tweet violates its terms of service with regard to users posting misinformation about coronavirus.
Meanwhile Dr Fauci has hit out after a clip of him was used in a Trump campaign commercial without his permission.
Follow the day’s events around the White House and on the campaign trail as they happened.
Trump has said he no longer has Covid-19 and “it looks like I’m immune”, in an interview with Fox News.
Not only has Trump apparently fully recovered from Covid-19…but he also reckons he has a “protective glow” from the disease.
Trump claims he has 'protective glow' and is 'immune' from Covid
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"It seems like I'm immune. I can go way out of the basement."
Two executives at US pharmaceutical firm Regeneron sold $1m in stock the first trading day after the White House revealed Donald Trump had been given the drug.
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Eric Trump appears to get a little confused about the history of presidential debates:
In a tweet, Trump again claims he now has Covid immunity, despite several instances of re-infection reported around the world:
Donald Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi butted heads from afar again on Sunday over the stalemate in negotiations for a coronavirus relief package.
The White House has offered a package that is “wholly insufficient” for testing, treatment, and contact tracing, the speaker said.
Mr Trump, however, said Ms Pelosi remains the main obstacle.
“Republicans want to do it — we’re having a hard time with Nancy Pelosi,” the president said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday.
That’s not accurate. Several Senate Republicans have balked at proposals even from the White House on Covid-19 relief.
Donald Trump has placed blame on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama for civil unrest that broke out in Baltimore, St Louis, and elsewhere after instances of alleged police brutality during the Obama administration.
Mr Trump has presided over the country during a summer of racial justice protests after the deaths or shootings in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and others.
Donald Trump hit his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, on Twitter for continuing to dodge questions about adding more justices to the Supreme Court to dilute a conservative majority, a manoeuvre known as court-packing.
Democrats have accused Republicans of “stealing” a Supreme Court seat by blocking Barack Obama’s nomination in 2016, Merrick Garland, seven months before that year’s election.
ABC News/The Washington Post released a poll on Sunday showing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden trouncing Donald Trump in the national popular vote by 12 percentage points.
In a head-to-head matchup, the Democrat had 55 per cent support from those surveyed, compared to Mr Trump’s 43 per cent.
That decisive edge remained at 12 points when Libertarian Jo Jorgensen and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins were included.
See the polling data for yourself here.
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