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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Trump claims he has 'protective glow' and is 'immune' from Covid

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.

Key Points

• President claims 'protective glow' of immunity from Covid
• President way behind Biden in polls
• Taliban denies endorsing Trump
• Doctor claims Trump is no longer Covid risk
• President restarts campaign with packed rally

[11 October 2020 19:20 · Griffin Connolly]

Eric Trump, the Donald Trump’s middle son, erroneously said his father had received a “vaccine” for Covid-19.

“My father literally started day one creating this vaccine. He worked to push this vaccine and now my father just took it! And you see how well he got over it and I think it’s an inspiration. As Americans, we should be very proud of that,” Eric Trump said of his father in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.”

[11 October 2020 19:34 · Dave Maclean]

A clip of Dr Fauci praising Trump was used in a new campaign ad - now Dr Fauci has hit back saying it was used without his permission and he’s never endorsed a political candidate.

He told CNN in a statement: “In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate. The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials.”

[11 October 2020 20:02 · Dave Maclean]

This election cycle feels crazy. It’s had twists, turns. It sometimes feels that the only way it could get crazier is if aliens invade us.

Well, about that.

[11 October 2020 20:20 · Dave Maclean]

Twitter on Sunday flagged a tweet by Donald Trump in which he claimed he was immune to the coronavirus.

The site said it violated the social media platform's rules about misleading information related to Covid-19.

"A total and complete sign off from White House Doctors yesterday. That means I can't get it (immune), and can't give it. Very nice to know," Trump said in the tweet.

[11 October 2020 21:29 · Griffin Connolly]

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer has said Donald Trump ought to “stick to his policies” instead of talking up accusations of intrigue against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

No one who “isn't already voting for is going to vote for him because additional emails come out or not,” Mr Spicer said.

The former White House press secretary and “Dancing with the Stars” contestant still supports his former boss and has a show on Newsmax TV.

[11 October 2020 21:44 · Griffin Connolly]

More than 200 businesses, special-interest political groups, and foreign governments have spent money at Donald Trump’s properties while seeking to curry favour with his administration, new reporting from the New York Times reveals.

Many of the groups and organisations detailed in the report have not been previously reported.

Earlier reporting from the Times  on the president’s tax filings has shown how he has more than $400m in debt coming due within the next four years and how he has increasingly relied on his political stature to help increase his companies’ revenues.

Read more about the president’s tax returns below: