Tony's Diary Package — page 439

Confirmed Cases [Thousancs) eo a0 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. iJ o nu EC & #2 # Ay aFF £ nd te - e See F ese estes geet FF STE FE FZ Day eee Day Mowing Avarage .-- 9,110,000/230,000 Tonight, I virtually received the Leonardo da Vinci Award of the National Italian American Foundation at their Virtual Gala online from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Hosted by Pat Harrison, Joe Piscopo and Maria Bartiromo. There was a wonderful series of testimonials to me from an amazing group of people: Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Francis Ford Copolla, President George W. Bush, Bono, John Turturro, Neil Sedaka, Dion DiMucci wrote and sang a song to me, Maria Tomei (she also grew upon Bensonhurst and commented about that), Isabella Rossilini, Mike Piazza, among many others. Very moving and humbling PRESS: ONLINE version of Washington Post article came out this evening (se below). Firestorm started. Apparently, the Post called the White House to inform them of my "negative towards the WH" interview. Mark Meadows called Collins (supposedly he tried to contact me but told Francis I did not answer my phone. He likely called my office phone that I no longer answer). He yelled at Francis saying that he has not seen the article yet but he has heard that I solicited an interview with the Post and did so without clearance. Francis called me and ascertained that in fact they called me and I did get clearance. See below (Sunday). November 1, 2020 - Global - 45,900,000/1,200,000; USA - 9,110,000/230,000