A look back at a disorientingly eventful month
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: October 2021 has not, so far, been an uneventful month. Extremely high-stakes, if opaque, negotiations continue in Washington over a massive infrastructure bill and Democrats’ massive social-spending bill. COVID continues to wreak havoc. And then there’s the rise of the espresso martini.
Information from official channels was not exactly reliable during the Trump era, and speculation ran rampant about the president’s actual condition. This only intensified when Trump checked into the hospital, supposedly as a precautionary measure. His personal physician, Sean Conley, offered a misleading timeline of Trump’s illness as well as a sunny prognosis, which he later said was meant to “reflect the upbeat attitude” of the White House.
The Plexiglass debate As the virus continued to spread among Trump’s associates, concerns mounted about the last two presidential debates. The first one took place on September 29, just two days before Trump announced that he had COVID. The second one, scheduled for October 15, was canceled after Trump balked at a plan to make it a virtual event rather than in-person.
The rushed Amy Coney Barrett confirmation About five weeks after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, President Trump’s nominee to replace her — close to the polar opposite of RBG in political ideology — was confirmed on October 26 by a sharply divided Senate, 52-48. All Democrats voted no; Maine’s Susan Collins, who was facing a tough reelection battle, was the only Republican who joined them.
Giuliani acquired a cache of emails purportedly sent by Hunter years earlier; they appeared to show that Joe Biden’s second son had introduced his father to a businessman at the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma — which Hunter was then on the board of — and that he traded on family connections to conduct a business deal in China. The emails were hyped by conservatives as a smoking gun, supposedly proving that Joe Biden had squashed an investigation into Burisma.
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