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2.40am BST
I’m just circling back on President Trump’s claim at his recent Michigan rally that Joe Biden is an anti-vaxxer.
“Joe Biden is once again hurting innocent people with his dangerous anti-vaccine conspiracies,” Trump said, claiming the “only reason he’s (Biden) doing that is he knows we are right next to having a vaccine” and he doesn’t want Trump to get credit for it.
2.13am BST
Just on Trump calling Bob Woodward a “whack job”, he’s clearly trying to discredit the damaging stories in the investigative journalist’s new book, Rage, that details in Trump’s own words how the president knew how dangerous the virus was, but publicly played it down.
But it’s hard to think of a better-credentialed journalist in the US than Woodward, who’s best known for covering the Watergate affair and the consequent fall of an earlier scandal-ridden president, Richard Nixon.
Four days before ordering a drone strike against the Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani, Donald Trump was debating the assassination on his own Florida golf course, according to Bob Woodward’s new book on the mercurial president.
Trump’s golfing partner that day was Senator Lindsey Graham, who had emerged as one of his closest advisers, and who urged him not to take such a “giant step”, that could trigger “almost total war”.
Related: Woodward tells how allies tried to rein in ‘childish’ Trump’s foreign policy
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