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As well as his bizarre defence of a mental acuity test he took and his ominous suggestion he may not accept the 2020 election result (detailed in blog posts below), here are some of the other most astonishing moments from Donald Trump's interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday.

Mr Trump says "I heard we have the best mortality rate" after being confronted over America's grim coronavirus statistics. The US has a higher official mortality rate than a number of countries.

Mr Trump says he "doesn't care what the military says" amid military support for the renaming of bases currently named after Confederate generals.

Mr Trump claims he is "not a big fan of Fox" despite tweeting supportively of the broadcaster and its pro-Trump hosts literally hundreds of times since becoming president.

Here is some reaction to Donald Trump's interview with Fox News on Sunday. 

Richard Stengel, a former senior diplomat in the Obama administration, has warned the US citizens "need to be ready" after Mr Trump suggested he could reject the 2020 election result.

Ted Lieu, a Democratic congressman for California, said questions should be asked over the president's siting for a mental acuity test.

Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman and prominent Trump critic, said the interview showed what "every single world leader knows about Donald Trump".

 Roger Stone uses racist slur in radio interview with black host

Roger Stone, the political operative who was spared a prison sentence this month by his friend Donald Trump, used a racial slur during a live radio show while speaking with the host, who is black.

Mr Stone was speaking on Saturday on The Mo’Kelly Show, a programme based at a Los Angeles radio station and hosted by Morris W O’Kelly, known as Mo’Kelly.

On the show, Mr O’Kelly questioned the role Mr Stone’s relationship and proximity to the US president played in the commutation of his sentence.

The host asked: “There are thousands of people treated unfairly daily, how your number just happened to come up in the lottery, I am guessing it was more than just luck, Roger, right?”

Mr Stone, who was speaking by phone, responded by muttering “...arguing with this Negro”; the beginning of his sentence was hard to hear. It sounded as if Mr Stone was not speaking directly into the phone but rather to himself or someone in the room with him.

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Here is the Fox News poll that attracted Donald Trump's ire during his interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday.

Although the numbers do not reflect particularly well on either candidate, Mr Trump flags significantly behind Joe Biden over their "mental soundness" to serve as president.

Maxine Waters jumps out of her car to intervene as black man stopped by police

California congresswoman Maxine Waters went to assist a black man who was pulled over by police in Los Angeles this weekend.

In a video shared online, Ms Waters parked her SUV and said she intervened to see what Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers were doing when they pulled a black man over.

The Democrat told the person videoing that “they stopped a brother so I stopped to see what they [the LAPD] were doing”.

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With Donald Trump struggling across virtually every polling metric in his presidential race against Joe Biden, the Trump campaign appears increasingly desperate to drum up support. 

It is sending extraordinary numbers of passive-aggressive emails to its subscribers attempting to squeeze more money out of them. Here is just one of nine emails sent to supporters on Sunday.

Brian Stelter, CNN's chief media correspondent, has provided a useful overview of Donald Trump's coronavirus misinformation during that extraordinary interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday.

Trump describes two world wars as ‘beautiful’ and threatens to veto bill renaming military bases

In a wide-ranging interview on Sunday with Fox News’s Chris Wallace, Donald Trump has once again refused to entertain the idea of renaming US military forts that currently bear the names of Confederate generals.

The subject came up as Wallace asked Mr Trump if he would veto the National Defence Authorisation Act, the annual legislation that funds military operations.

This year’s bill includes a provision renaming US military bases that are currently named after generals of the Confederacy – that is, men who fought against the Union to protect the institution of slavery. Those bases include Fort Bragg, the US Army’s largest base.

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Donald Trump has nothing on his public schedule today until 5.50pm, when he will depart for a roundtable discussion with supporters. 

That lasts for an hour, before he heads back to the White House again.

Trump condemns protests in Portland as administration moves to intervene in anti-racism demonstrations

Donald Trump condemned protests in Portland, Oregon, and violence in “Democrat-run” cities on Sunday as his Republican administration moves to intervene in urban centres he says have lost control of anti-racism demonstrations.

Federal law enforcement officers, armed with a new executive order aimed at protecting US monuments, last week started cracking down on crowds gathering in Portland to protest police brutality and systemic racism.

After a chaotic night in Portland that saw a police association building set on fire and officers shooting tear gas at a group of mothers protesting police brutality, Mr Trump and Portland's mayor traded barbs over who was to blame for the escalating unrest.

“We are trying to help Portland, not hurt it. Their leadership has, for months, lost control of the anarchists and agitators. They are missing in action. We must protect Federal property, AND OUR PEOPLE,” Mr Trump wrote in a Twitter post.

Facing declining polling numbers before his 3 November election against Democrat Joe Biden, Mr Trump is making “law and order” a central campaign issue to appeal to critical suburban voters.

Reuters