House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to create a panel that could determine President Donald Trump’s fitness for office. Joined by Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, the two Democrats announced on Friday that they would create a commission to “help ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership” in the White House. Raskin and Pelosi explained that the process would include a medical diagnosis of the President. The Washington Post explained, “Under the 25th Amendment, a president could be declared ‘disabled’ and involuntarily removed from office by joint agreement of the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet, something that has never happened.”

Meanwhile Trump, who by all accounts should still be in the process of recovery from the coronavirus, has claimed he is in perfect health and is not contagious. In fact he expects to be out in public by Saturday for a rally in Florida. In a memo published on Thursday Trump’s physician Dr. Sean Conley claimed that by Saturday he could safely return to public life, ten days after his positive Covid test. Experts have said that the President’s treatment with a very strong steroid and with experimental antibody medication indicate that his illness was likely serious and that any return to public life ought to come only after a negative Covid-19 result conducted using a very accurate laboratory test. After the Commission on Presidential Debates decided to switch next week’s presidential debate into a virtual event as a precaution, Trump simply pulled out of the debate, leaving the plans in disarray. Indicating that Trump fears having his mic cut off in a virtual environment, he told Fox News, “That’s not what debating is all about — you sit behind the computer and do a debate, it’s ridiculous…And then they cut you off whenever they want.”

Trump has vainly attempted to remain in the public eye with less than a month before the election by appearing on as many favorable phone interviews as possible. Among his virtual appearances over the past few days was on rightwing shock jock Rush Limbaugh’s radio program. Trump had surprised everyone by giving Limbaugh the Freedom Medal earlier this year. On Limbaugh’s show this week Trump claimed without evidence that there was a cure for Covid-19 even though no nation, agency, lab, drug company, or doctor says there is a cure. Meanwhile academy award winning filmmaker Alex Gibney is releasing an explosive new documentary called Totally Under Control exposing the Trump Administration’s failures on the pandemic. Here is the film trailer.

Polls continue to show Trump struggling to surmount his rival Joe Biden’s lead in swing states but now even reliably Republican-voting states show a very close race. Arizona Republican Jeff Flake who was a GOP Senator and who is now supporting Biden, told the New York Times, “There are limits to what people can take with the irresponsibility...