The president says he called Redfield to ask about two things Redfield says that the president didn’t like. The president says, since that phone call, that if Redfield is asked now he’d probably say he didn’t understand the question on masks.
Redfield said: "I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against Covid than when I take a Covid vaccine...”
“... because the immunogenicity may be 70%. And if I don't get an immune response, the vaccine is not going to protect me. This face mask will.”
Atlas stands up after briefing where Trump undercut his CDC director and accuses the press of fear-mongering around safety questions on the speed of the vaccine.
.@Noahbierman tries pointing out to Trump that he just undercut his own CDC director when he excoriates people for questioning whether science is guiding his decisions. Trump again says Redfield must not have understood the question.
"The mask is a mixed bag," Trump says, referring back to things that were said by health experts six months ago about transmission from touching the masks.
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NEW: The family of Master Sgt. Andrew Marckesano, a multi-tour combat vet who died by suicide in 2020 and whose gravestone was photographed and filmed in the Trump Arlington visit, expresses dismay. Chris Cameron Eric Schmitt me nytimes.com/2024/08/28/us/…
Marckesano's gravestone appeared in photos posted online of Trump standing in Section 60 at the adjacent gravesite of a sergeant whose family welcomed Trump. The Marckesanos weren't asked; video of the back of his gravestone appeared in a Trump Tik-Tok nytimes.com/2024/08/28/us/…
Marckesano had a harrowing death after suffering PTSD from his time in combat, which included nearly a dozen tours, including six in Afghanistan nytimes.com/2024/08/28/us/…
At a fundraiser last weekend, Trump, asked for his positive vision for the country, slammed Harris and said, “I am who I am.” A week earlier, he had an aide send a startled Miriam Adelson texts accusing her of having RINOs running her super PaC nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/…
The texts to Miriam Adelson were sent from Natalie Harp. Adelson advisers believed something seemed off, and called Ike Perlmutter, who they learned had encouraged it. Perlmutter acknowledged doing just that, per two people w knowledge nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/…
In December, the Times captured here the body of work that, led by @jonathanvswan, he and @charlie_savage and I began in June 2023 on what a Trump return to office would look like. That overview is here nytimes.com/article/trump-…
We have looked at how Trump has promised a special prosecutor to "go after" the Bidens and his desire to erode the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence 1/ nytimes.com/2023/06/15/us/…
We have looked in detail, interviewing key figures like Stephen Miller, at Trump's plan for mass deportations, sweeping raids and giant camps for undocumented immigrants 2/ nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/…
Fundraising that didn’t meet expectations and spending that was profligate. A campaign manager now under fire. And a candidate for a second time in weeks expected to engage with a mainstream media he has disdained. @ShaneGoldmacher and me nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/…
The bizarre anti LGBT video that appeared to have been picked up by DeSantis War Room from a friendly Twitter user was actually made by a campaign aide and made to look like it came from elsewhere, a person w knowledge of what happened said nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/…
That the campaign did not hit expected fund-raising targets — and spent exorbitantly — caught the candidate and his wife by surprise, a person with knowledge of their reactions said. nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/…
Trump tells me minutes ago he has NOT been told he’s getting indicted, when contacted. “It’s not true,” he said, adding again he hasn’t done anything wrong.
Trump statement came amid a report from one of his allies that he has been told this. NYT, CNN, WaPo and other outlets have all reported federal officials have been building toward a likely indictment, including with witnesses in Miami before a grand jury today.
When I asked if he had been told he’s a target, he demurred, saying he doesn’t talk directly to prosecutors.
Confirming WaPo from earlier, @alanfeuer and me on Trump aide Walt Nauta getting an assist from a Mar-a-Lago worker moving boxes back into the storage room shortly before Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran began a search of what was there nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/…
Corcoran, who believed he didn't have proper clearance to transport the documents himself, called DOJ that night to arrange for them to come get them. nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/…
The detail is notable as part of a larger puzzle that prosecutors have put together about whether Trump improperly retained national defense information and whether there is a pattern of him obstructing the DOJ investigation over many months nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/…