Week 189: August 30-September 5

Trump spoke about Rittenhouse at a Monday press conference: “He was trying to get rid of — away from them and he fell and then they very violently attacked him. It is something that we’re looking at right now, it is under investigation. I guess he was in very big trouble. He probably would have been killed.

DHS has blocked from publishing its own report on Russian election interference operations, specifically around disinformation about Biden’s health. Wold said the report was “poorly written”: The department appears to have inconsistent standards of caution for its intelligence briefings. Intelligence officers wrote that they had “high confidence” in their assessment of Russian election interference, yet its publication was blocked. But on July 16, the department’s intelligence office broadly disseminated a bulletin on “anarchist extremists” committing violence in the Pacific Northwest, although in that case, officials admitted they had “low confidence” in their historical assessment.

In an attempt to continue sowing confusion about mail-in voting, Trump repeatedly encouraged his supporters to vote twice in the 2020 election, first by mail and then in person.

The Atlantic reported on Thursday that Trump denigrated troops of prior wars, particularly in the WWI Centennial where he refused to visit the cemeteries. This was based on 4 anonymous sources, but confirmed by every major cable news network and the New York Times.

Trump’s Job Approval: 43.5%

COVID-19 Cases/Deaths: 6,181,474 / 187,159