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Pressure on schools The Trump administration urged state and local officials to reopen classrooms in the fall. A7 Chief justice injured John G. Roberts Jr. suffered a fall last month that required an overnight stay in a hospital, a Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed. A20 FOOD Culinary freedom Houston chef Jonny Rhodes wants to fight “food apartheid” in the United States. E1 STYLE Dive’s denouement The Post Pub, a longtime haunt for journalists, closes after 43 years. C1 In the News THE NATION After Columbus, Ohio, removed its statue of Christopher Columbus, activists set their sights on changing the city’s name, too. A3 A PrEP drug injected every two months is bet- ter at preventing HIV than a daily pill regi- men, researchers re- ported. A7 THE WORLD New Zealand is recali- brating its dealings with both Beijing and Wash- ington — and walking a tightrope. A12 Leaders in Ghana say they’re rolling out the welcome mat for black Americans who want to escape racism. A15 THE ECONOMY Disney’s first-look deal with Colin Kaepernick is a notable moment in the convergence of politics, sports and entertain- ment. A19 THE REGION The D.C. Council raised the gas tax and ended some business tax breaks to boost revenue but spared the rich an income tax hike. B1 A D.C. partnership is giving cash and food to Ward 8 families to help them cope with intensi- fying daily struggles. B1 CONTENT © 2020 The Washington Post Year 143, No. 216 BUSINESS NEWS.........................A19 COMICS.........................................C6 OPINION PAGES..........................A23 LOTTERIES.................................... B3 OBITUARIES..................................B6 TELEVISION...................................C5 WORLD NEWS............................. A12 Donald became the right-hand man in the family real estate business. Mary Trump’s father, Fred Jr. — the president’s older brother — died of an alcohol-related illness in 1981, when she was 16 years old. President Trump told The Post last year that he and his father both pushed Fred Jr. to go into the family business, which Trump said he now regrets. The book marks the first time that a member of Trump’s family has published such a memoir, providing an often bitter and blis- tering insider account of the forc- es that shaped Donald Trump, and so alarming the family that SEE BOOK ON A6 BY DEBBIE CENZIPER AND SHAWN MULCAHY spring city, pa. — They wrapped the dead in body bags and raced back to treat the living, crammed into a nursing home that, day after day, played the somber sound of taps over the speaker system so the veterans who lived there had the chance to say goodbye. The nurses and aides at the Southeastern Veterans’ Center in the suburbs of Philadelphia had watched so much go wrong since the start of the coronavirus pan- demic. The communal dining that lasted into April, the nights that feverish patients were left to sleep beside roommates who weren’t sick yet. “Merry Christ- mas,” one nurse told another when they finally got N95 masks, weeks into the crisis and just before administrators stopped staffing the isolation rooms be- cause too many people were feared infected. BY GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER AND LAURA VOZZELLA richmond — Beth Almore played the cello as J.E.B. Stuart fell. Sitting on a shady median along Monu- ment Avenue on Tuesday morning, Almore refused to look at the Confederate statue as a crane hoisted it from the base where it had stood since 1907. She played Bach and the haunting “Spiegel im Spiegel” by Arvo Part and afterward wouldn’t even say the name of the man whose bronze likeness now lay on its side on a flatbed truck to be hauled away. “That’s a person who deserves to be a footnote in history,” said Almore, 53, a public school music teacher in Richmond. A photo of her great-great-grandmother, born into slavery in Mississippi, rested on her music stand. “What concerns me is that if it takes this much effort to get a statue removed, what is it going to take to get systemic racism dismantled in this country?” After a solid month of day-and-night protests, all four Confederate statues on city-owned property along Monument Ave- nue are gone. Only the grandest and oldest monument — to Gen. Robert E. Lee, which towers 60 feet over state-owned land — remains. A judge has so far blocked Gov. Ralph Northam (D) from removing it. A national reckoning with racism and inequity, triggered by police killings of black Americans, has led to a final attack on Southern icons of the Confederacy, with the battle flag banned by NASCAR and removed from the state flag in Mississippi. In Richmond, a group of well-heeled residents is fighting in court to save Lee, arguing in part that losing the statue will harm property values in an elegant section SEE RICHMOND ON A26 In place of Richmond statues, new voices rise Just one Confederate monument remains as protesters remake a once unwelcoming avenue BY BEN STRAUSS Throughout the spring and into the summer — without the National Basketball Association playoffs and baseball’s opening weeks — the sports world has continued to feel the steady drumbeat of the National Football League. The league opened free agency as usual, providing news- making moments such as star quarterback Tom Brady signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and then its draft went off without a hitch in April, delivering boffo ratings for ESPN. For the TV networks and sports media outlets that cover the league, this has been most wel- come. But as the calendar flipped to July, with NFL training camps set to open at the end of the month, doubts surfaced about the viability of the football season. Novel coronavirus cases are spik- ing in states across the country. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said football players may need to be in a bubble SEE NFL ON A26 Losing the NFL season would wallop TV networks ‘Covid cocktail’: Trying the unproven Pa. home gave veterans hydroxychloroquine without testing for the virus PHOTOS BY JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST BY AMY GARDNER AND JOSH DAWSEY President Trump’s relentless at- tacks on the security of mail voting are driving suspicion among GOP voters toward absentee ballots — a dynamic alarming Republican strategists, who say it could under- cut their own candidates, includ- ing Trump himself. In several primaries this spring, Democratic voters have embraced mail ballots in far larger numbers than Republicans during a cam- paign season defined by the coro- navirus pandemic. And when they urge their supporters to vote by mail, GOP candidates around the country are hearing from more and more Republican voters who say they do not trust absentee bal- lots, according to multiple strate- gists. In one particularly vivid ex- ample, a group of Michigan voters held a public burning of their ab- sentee ballot applications last month. The growing Republican antag- onism toward voting by mail comes even as the Trump cam- paign is launching a major absen- tee-ballot program in every com- petitive state, according to multi- ple campaign advisers — a delicate SEE GOP ON A22 Mail-in skeptics may cost the GOP PARTY STRATEGISTS FEAR LOST TURNOUT Campaigns push voting method Trump abhors ABCDE Prices may vary in areas outside metropolitan Washington. 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Amid escalating infections, Florida, once held up by President Trump as a model for how to man- age the novel coronavirus, is far- SEE FLORIDA ON A8 In Florida, an abrupt reversal of fortunes State that had led national reopening now an epicenter of pandemic But what worried some nurses most was what they called the “covid cocktail,” the widespread, off-label use of one of the anti- malarial drugs touted by Presi- dent Trump in March as a poten- tially game-changing treatment for covid-19. For more than two weeks in April, a drug regimen that in- cluded hydroxychloroquine was SEE NURSING HOME ON A10 BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST Chrissy Diaz, with her children Nestor, 20, and Bella, 15, holds the ashes of her father, who lived at the Southeastern Veterans’ Center. BY SHANE HARRIS AND MICHAEL KRANISH A tell-all book by President Trump’s niece describes a family riven by a series of traumas, exac- erbated by a daunting patriarch who “destroyed” Donald Trump by short-circuiting his “ability to develop and experience the entire spectrum of human emotion,” ac- cording to a copy of the forthcom- ing memoir obtained by The Washington Post. President Trump’s view of the world was shaped by his desire during childhood to avoid his father’s disapproval, according to the niece, Mary L. Trump, whose book is by turns a family history and a psychological analysis of her uncle. But she writes that as Donald matured, his father came to envy his son’s “confidence and brazen- ness,” as well as his seemingly insatiable desire to flout rules and conventions, traits that brought them closer together as Niece writes of the family traumas that shaped Trump In her new book, Mary L. Trump writes that Donald Trump was emotionally stunted by his father. TOP: Workers remove J.E.B. Stuart’s statue, the last of four Confederate markers on city-owned Monument Avenue property to come down. ABOVE: Beth Almore plays in June in front of a memorial to a 7-year-old killed by police. On Tuesday, she played again as the Stuart statue was removed. N.J. primaries: Democrat Amy Kennedy to face party defector. A2 Arlington board: Democrat wins special election to finish term. B4 At home and abroad: Hospitals fill, but U.S. focus is elsewhere. A8 Bolsonaro tests positive: Brazil’s leader still dismisses the virus. A16 WHO: U.S. officially notifies global health institution it will leave. A4 FREE GUTTERS OR GUTTER GUARDS! * Licensed, Bonded, Insured. MHIC 51346, VA 2705048183A, DC 67006785 * With Long Roofing purchase. Expires 8/20/20. Valid initial visit only. Min. purchase required. Cannot be combined with other offers. OAC. FREE Estimates g Financing Available 877-440-LONG LongRoofing.com
Transcript of Sunny 83/64 • Tomorrow: Mostly sunny 90/73 B6 ABCDE · BY ROBERT SAMUELS, AARON WILLIAMS, TRACY...
Pressure on schools The Trump administration urged state and local officials to reopen classrooms in the fall. A7
Chief justice injured John G. Roberts Jr. suffered a fall last month that required an overnight stay in a hospital, a Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed. A20
Food
Culinary freedomHouston chef Jonny Rhodes wants to fight “food apartheid” in the United States. E1
Style
Dive’s denouementThe Post Pub, a longtime haunt for journalists, closes after 43 years. C1
In the NewsThe nationAfter Columbus, Ohio, removed its statue of Christopher Columbus, activists set their sights on changing the city’s name, too. A3A PrEP drug injected every two months is bet-ter at preventing HIV
than a daily pill regi-men, researchers re-ported. A7
The worldNew Zealand is recali-brating its dealings with both Beijing and Wash-ington — and walking a tightrope. A12
Leaders in Ghana say they’re rolling out the welcome mat for black Americans who want to escape racism. A15
The economyDisney’s first-look deal with Colin Kaepernick is a notable moment in the convergence of politics, sports and entertain-ment. A19
The regionThe D.C. Council raised the gas tax and ended some business tax breaks to boost revenue but spared the rich an income tax hike. B1A D.C. partnership is giving cash and food to Ward 8 families to help them cope with intensi-fying daily struggles. B1
CONTENT © 2020The Washington Post Year 143, No. 216
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Donald became the right-hand man in the family real estate business.
Mary Trump’s father, Fred Jr. — the president’s older brother — died of an alcohol-related illness in 1981, when she was 16 years old. President Trump told The Post last year that he and his father both pushed Fred Jr. to go into the family business, which Trump said he now regrets.
The book marks the first time that a member of Trump’s family has published such a memoir, providing an often bitter and blis-tering insider account of the forc-es that shaped Donald Trump, and so alarming the family that
see book on A6
BY DEBBIE CENZIPERAND SHAWN MULCAHY
SPRING CITY, Pa. — They wrapped the dead in body bags and raced back to treat the living, crammed into a nursing home that, day after day, played the somber sound of taps over the speaker system so the veterans who lived there had the chance to say goodbye.
The nurses and aides at the Southeastern Veterans’ Center in the suburbs of Philadelphia had watched so much go wrong since the start of the coronavirus pan-demic. The communal dining that lasted into April, the nights that feverish patients were left to sleep beside roommates who weren’t sick yet. “Merry Christ-mas,” one nurse told another when they finally got N95 masks, weeks into the crisis and just before administrators stopped staffing the isolation rooms be-cause too many people were feared infected.
BY GREGORY S. SCHNEIDERAND LAURA VOZZELLA
RICHMOND — Beth Almore played the cello as J.E.B. Stuart fell.
Sitting on a shady median along Monu-ment Avenue on Tuesday morning, Almore refused to look at the Confederate statue as a crane hoisted it from the base where it had stood since 1907. She played Bach and the haunting “Spiegel im Spiegel” by Arvo Part and afterward wouldn’t even say the name of the man whose bronze likeness now lay on its side on a flatbed truck to be hauled away.
“That’s a person who deserves to be a footnote in history,” said Almore, 53, a public school music teacher in Richmond. A photo of her great-great-grandmother, born into slavery in Mississippi, rested on her music stand. “What concerns me is that if it takes this much effort to get a statue removed,
what is it going to take to get systemic racism dismantled in this country?”
After a solid month of day-and-night protests, all four Confederate statues on city-owned property along Monument Ave-nue are gone. Only the grandest and oldest monument — to Gen. Robert E. Lee, which towers 60 feet over state-owned land — remains. A judge has so far blocked Gov. Ralph Northam (D) from removing it.
A national reckoning with racism and inequity, triggered by police killings of black Americans, has led to a final attack on Southern icons of the Confederacy, with the battle flag banned by NASCAR and removed from the state flag in Mississippi.
In Richmond, a group of well-heeled residents is fighting in court to save Lee, arguing in part that losing the statue will harm property values in an elegant section
see richmond on A26
In place of Richmond statues, new voices rise Just one Confederate monument remains as protesters remake a once unwelcoming avenue
BY BEN STRAUSS
Throughout the spring and into the summer — without the National Basketball Association playoffs and baseball’s opening weeks — the sports world has continued to feel the steady drumbeat of the National Football League. The league opened free agency as usual, providing news-making moments such as star quarterback Tom Brady signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and then its draft went off without a hitch in April, delivering boffo ratings for ESPN.
For the TV networks and sports media outlets that cover the league, this has been most wel-come. But as the calendar flipped to July, with NFL training camps set to open at the end of the month, doubts surfaced about the viability of the football season. Novel coronavirus cases are spik-ing in states across the country. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said football players may need to be in a bubble
see nfl on A26
Losing the NFL season would wallop TV networks ‘Covid cocktail’: Trying the unproven
Pa. home gave veterans hydroxychloroquine without testing for the virus
Photos by John McDonnell/The Washington Post
BY AMY GARDNERAND JOSH DAWSEY
President Trump’s relentless at-tacks on the security of mail voting are driving suspicion among GOP voters toward absentee ballots — a dynamic alarming Republican strategists, who say it could under-cut their own candidates, includ-ing Trump himself.
In several primaries this spring, Democratic voters have embraced mail ballots in far larger numbers than Republicans during a cam-paign season defined by the coro-navirus pandemic. And when they urge their supporters to vote by mail, GOP candidates around the country are hearing from more and more Republican voters who say they do not trust absentee bal-lots, according to multiple strate-gists. In one particularly vivid ex-ample, a group of Michigan voters held a public burning of their ab-sentee ballot applications last month.
The growing Republican antag-onism toward voting by mail comes even as the Trump cam-paign is launching a major absen-tee-ballot program in every com-petitive state, according to multi-ple campaign advisers — a delicate
see GOP on A22
Mail-in skeptics may cost the GOPparty strategists fear lost turnout
Campaigns push voting method Trump abhors
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Democracy Dies in Darkness wednesday, july 8 , 2020 . $2 Partly sunny 92/75 • Tomorrow: Partly sunny, humid 91/76 B8
BY CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR.,ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER
AND LORI ROZSA
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As the coronavirus savaged other parts of the country, Florida, buoyed by low infection rates, seemed an ide-al location for a nation looking to emerge from isolation. The Re-publican National Convention moved from Charlotte to Jackson-ville, the NBA eyed a season finale at a Disney sports complex near Orlando and millions packed onto once-empty beaches.
Weeks later, the Sunshine State has emerged as a coronavirus epi-center. Nearly 1 out of every 100 residents is infected with the vi-rus, hospital intensive care units are full or filling up, and big-name visitors who chose Florida for their first post-isolation events are now mired in questions and con-troversies about safety.
Amid escalating infections, Florida, once held up by President Trump as a model for how to man-age the novel coronavirus, is far-
see florida on A8
In Florida, an abrupt reversal of fortunes
State that had led national reopening now
an epicenter of pandemic
But what worried some nurses most was what they called the “covid cocktail,” the widespread, off-label use of one of the anti-malarial drugs touted by Presi-dent Trump in March as a poten-
tially game-changing treatment for covid-19.
For more than two weeks in April, a drug regimen that in-cluded hydroxychloroquine was
see nursing home on A10
Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post
Chrissy Diaz, with her children Nestor, 20, and Bella, 15, holds the ashes of her father, who lived at the Southeastern Veterans’ Center.
BY SHANE HARRISAND MICHAEL KRANISH
A tell-all book by President Trump’s niece describes a family riven by a series of traumas, exac-erbated by a daunting patriarch who “destroyed” Donald Trump by short-circuiting his “ability to develop and experience the entire spectrum of human emotion,” ac-cording to a copy of the forthcom-ing memoir obtained by The Washington Post.
President Trump’s view of the world was shaped by his desire during childhood to avoid his father’s disapproval, according to the niece, Mary L. Trump, whose book is by turns a family history and a psychological analysis of her uncle.
But she writes that as Donald matured, his father came to envy his son’s “confidence and brazen-ness,” as well as his seemingly insatiable desire to flout rules and conventions, traits that brought them closer together as
Niece writes of the family traumas that shaped Trump
In her new book, Mary L. Trump writes that Donald Trump was emotionally stunted by his father.
TOP: Workers remove J.E.B. Stuart’s statue, the last of four Confederate markers on city-owned Monument Avenue property to come down.ABOVE: Beth Almore plays in June in front of a memorial to a 7-year-old killed by police. On Tuesday, she played again as the Stuart statue was removed.
N.J. primaries: Democrat Amy Kennedy to face party defector. A2
Arlington board: Democrat wins special election to finish term. B4
At home and abroad: Hospitals fill, but U.S. focus is elsewhere. A8
Bolsonaro tests positive: Brazil’s leader still dismisses the virus. A16
WHO: U.S. officially notifies global health institution it will leave. A4
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