Just another news day and at least one or two more news cycles with 54 days left.

x Donald Trump is the first president in 39 years to not start a war but still manage to kill 190,000+ Americans.— ray waldin (@rwaldin) September 10, 2020

How pathological is this tweet.

x Bob Woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought they were so bad or dangerous, why didn’t he immediately report them in an effort to save lives? Didn’t he have an obligation to do so? No, because he knew they were good and proper answers. Calm, no panic! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2020

x Trump asks why journalist who revealed that he had privately acknowledged downplaying coronavirus didn’t do more to save lives https://t.co/ipyUwck0Hr

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 10, 2020

x .@MilesTaylorUSA writes that he believes “Trump poses a greater risk to the integrity of the US election than America's foreign rivals do” — and he shares one story to illustrate why. https://t.co/pDGuSO5GS9

— CNN Opinion (@CNNOpinion) September 9, 2020

x The whistleblower statement is broad and damning and highlights illegality by Trump officials. The press need to take note: Trump has succeeded in turning the IC into a political tool, tainting its analysis, and can’t be taken on face value. Quick thread: 1/ pic.twitter.com/4YXzr7ZzOH

— Max Bergmann (@maxbergmann) September 10, 2020

x So the Kremlin is attacking, or should I say continues to attack, our country. These are acts of war. Trump is allowing this to occur. #BidenHarris2020 https://t.co/RYWbJJcoaC

— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) September 10, 2020

Why it matters: We get a torrent of tweeted and spoken words from Trump — far more public musing, riffing and ranting than from any president, ever. But it's not always clear what to believe, what matters, or what will endure. Now, we can read and hear Trump free-associating for history. Woodward tapped Trump's vanity and insecurity to secure an astonishing 18 interviews, totaling nine hours, with the most powerful man in the world. Woodward was allowed to record all the on-the-record sessions. Audio snippets were released yesterday along with extensive excerpts from the book, out Tuesday. We know Trump likes to talk to famous people — he complained publicly after he wasn't interviewed for Woodward's brutal 2018 Trump book, “Fear.” And we know Woodward is seductive. “Every president does a Bob Woodward book … and then later comes to regret it,” Karl Rove told Fox News.

is seductive. “Every president does a Bob Woodward book … and then later comes to regret it,” Karl Rove told Fox News. So now we have the president — as he fights for reelection 54 days before Election Day — admitting that he deliberately “played down” the coronavirus, at a time when more urgency could have saved lives … blithely rejecting Woodward's suggestion that white privilege is isolating, and that “we have to work our way out of it to understand the anger and the pain … black people feel” (“You really drank the Kool-Aid … I don't feel that at all”) … and once again using a “p”-word variant, this time to refer to generals instead of genitals. x Trump, who rails about anonymous sources, is suddenly confronted with an extensive, unsparing, on-the-record account of his thinking about America's virus and race crises — and he's the source. https://t.co/uZECLuVxRQ — Axios (@axios) September 10, 2020

x With the Woodward book dominating cable, the tweets keep coming https://t.co/7qayEB4Pu4

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) September 10, 2020

Where is this coming from.

x Obama is lucky he ran against @MittRomney, a man with very little talent or political skill, as opposed to someone who knows how to fight and win! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2020

Why would Trump retweet fat jokes about himself.

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