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June 20, 2020 - Global USA Things are really heating up. Someone leaked to media that Deb and I advised against the Tulsa Campaign rally. We never really discussed it at the TF meeting. I got textpinged by several reporters (Jon Karl, Norah O'Donnell, Jim Sciutto, Jim LaCosta about this. I honestly said that I could not conbfirm this since we never discussed thr Tulsa rally specifically. Nonetheless, today papers are saying that this is the case. Clearly someone is leaking things without knowing the facts. Karl told me that the word was out even before the TF meeting ended. And so, someone is leaking even before we finish. Tam getting progressively disillusioned with Deb Birx. She is happy talking the increased cases and the VP who is desparately looking for good news listenes to her and actually thinks that thngs are going well when, in fact. 13 states are clearly having surges of cases. She makes the case that 37 cases are stable or decreasing and underplays the13 that are "on fire". In fact after the TF meeting on Friday (yesterday, the VP wants us to present this to the POTUS who probably hates me by now, even though he says that he "loves me". He has tweeted about me 3 times yesterday and today. Deb has ststed that we should noit do clinical trials since "I want to see every infected person in a nursing home get plasma early on and steroids later. Forget the trial, we need to do this on EUAs. She says the same thing about vaccine trials. Clearly, she is trying to provide Trump with his October surprise. I may need to blow the whistle on her. It is reported that several(6) staff from the WH rally advance team have tested positive upon screening. David Perlman of he SF Chronicle. He was a great science reporters and one who first interviewed me during the earlier years of HIV/AIDS Trump-Fauci tension building up by the press. White House remains friendly, but press reports stressing the difference between the POTUS and me. I am now being ttacked more by the far right. Higly tense political situations. I quite frankly do not really care. I will keep doing what Iam doing. Am being constantly pinged (texted) by the press asking my opinion of various statements that are coming out. Kayleigh McEnany essentially saying that I will not be out in the press. Alyssa Farah is the one hope in Comms since she clearly wants me out their. Kayleigh constantly lying to and insulting the press. They are all on to her. POTUS makes silly statement at the rally in Tulsa that the more you test, the more cases there will be (implying that testing causes cases) and then said that he told his people to

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June 20, 2020 - Global USA 2020-06-20 diary entry 212–213