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“The World Health Organization just admitted that I was right,” President Trump tweeted this week. “Lockdowns are killing countries all over the world.” But the W.H.O. did not say that. Here’s the truth. PAGE A14 DISTORTIONS U(D54G1D)y+[!?!&!$!" During Judge Amy Coney Bar- rett’s Supreme Court confirma- tion hearings this week, Republi- can senators, one after another, marveled at a role that doesn’t ap- pear on her résumé: mother of seven. They described her moth- ering as “tireless” and “remark- able,” clear evidence that she was a “superstar.” Senator Josh Haw- ley asked her for parenting ad- vice. Judge Barrett has embraced the image. News cameras were there to watch her load her large family into her car before her offi- cial nomination. “While I am a judge, I’m better known back home as a room parent, car-pool driver and birthday party plan- ner,” she said the day she was nominated. One of her sharpest question- ers, Senator Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has, in other settings, re- peatedly emphasized her role as stepmother, which she took on when she married six years ago. She is called Momala, she has told voters, and she cooks the Sunday night family dinners. For American women in public office, being a mother has become Mothers in Public Office Still Walk a ‘Tightrope’ By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and ALISHA HARIDASANI GUPTA Jumble of Expectations That Men Don’t Face Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a mother of seven, which was discussed at her confirmation hearings. ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A20 Long before Joseph R. Biden Jr. was smashing online fund-raising records, long before it was clear he would become the Democratic nominee, his campaign was facing a serious cash crisis. It was late summer 2019 and Mr. Biden’s online fund-raising had slowed to such a trickle that his team basically had to shut down its digital advertising program. His aides knew the choice was self-defeating: No more online ads meant no more finding new donors. The campaign bottomed out in early September 2019 when Mr. Biden raised just $24,124.17 online in a day. Now? On one recent day, Mr. Bi- den was raising more than that ev- ery two minutes. The unlikely transformation of Mr. Biden, a 77-year-old whose seemingly limited appeal to small donors left him financially out- flanked in the primaries, into per- haps the greatest magnet for on- line money in American political history is a testament to the feroc- ity of Democratic opposition to President Trump. In a little over a year, the former vice president’s online fund-rais- ing had increased 1,000-fold, to $24.1 million on Sept. 30. Mr. Biden now has a once-un- imaginable cash edge over Mr. Trump, and since Sept. 1 he has re- served about $140 million more in television advertising than the president. Money alone does not determine presidential winners — Hillary Clinton vastly outspent Mr. Trump in 2016 — but the cash has provided Mr. Biden enviable flexibility to engineer the electoral map to his advantage. Biden’s Climb To Cash King Of 2020 Race By SHANE GOLDMACHER and RACHEL SHOREY Continued on Page A14 Michael Reinoehl was on the run. A few days after a shooting left a far-right Trump supporter dead on the streets of Portland, Ore., Mr. Reinoehl, an antifa activist who had been named in the news media as a focus of the investiga- tion, feared that vigilantes were after him, not to mention the po- lice. Even some of his close friends did not know where he was. But the authorities knew. On Sept. 3, about 120 miles north of Portland, Mr. Reinoehl was getting into his Volkswagen station wagon when a pair of un- marked sport utility vehicles roared through the quiet streets, screeching to a halt just in front of his bumper. Members of a U.S. Marshals task force jumped out and unleashed a hail of bullets that shattered windows, whizzed past bystanders and left Mr. Rei- noehl dead in the street. Attorney General William P. Barr trumpeted the operation as a “significant accomplishment” that removed a “violent agitator.” The officers had opened fire, he said, when Mr. Reinoehl “at- Activist’s Death In Hail of Shots Under Scrutiny This article is by Evan Hill, Mike Baker, Derek Knowles and Stella Cooper. Evidence markers near where Michael Reinoehl was killed. TED S. WARREN/ASSOCIATED PRESS Continued on Page A22 F.D.R.-LIKE Joseph R. Biden Jr. draws his bold pandemic plan from the New Deal. PAGE A9 On the afternoon of Feb. 24, President Trump declared on Twitter that the coronavirus was “very much under control” in the United States, one of numerous rosy statements that he and his advisers made at the time about the worsening epidemic. He even added an observation for invest- ors: “Stock market starting to look very good to me!” But hours earlier, senior mem- bers of the president’s economic team, privately addressing board members of the conservative Hoover Institution, were less con- fident. Tomas J. Philipson, a sen- ior economic adviser to the presi- dent, told the group he could not yet estimate the effects of the vi- rus on the American economy. To some in the group, the implication was that an outbreak could prove worse than Mr. Philipson and other Trump administration ad- visers were signaling in public at the time. The next day, board members — many of them Republican do- nors — got another taste of gov- ernment uncertainty from Larry Kudlow, the director of the Na- tional Economic Council. Hours after he had boasted on CNBC that the virus was contained in the United States and “it’s pretty close to airtight,” Mr. Kudlow delivered a more ambiguous private mes- sage. He asserted that the virus was “contained in the U.S., to date, but now we just don’t know,” ac- cording to a document describing the sessions obtained by The New York Times. The document, written by a hedge fund consultant who at- tended the three-day gathering of Hoover’s board, was stark. “What struck me,” the consultant wrote, was that nearly every official he heard from raised the virus “as a point of concern, totally unpro- voked.” The consultant’s assessment quickly spread through parts of the investment world. U.S. stocks were already spiraling because of a warning from a federal public health official that the virus was likely to spread, but traders spot- ted the immediate significance: The president’s aides appeared to be giving wealthy party donors an early warning of a potentially im- pactful contagion at a time when Mr. Trump was publicly insisting that the threat was nonexistent. Interviews with eight people who either received copies of the memo or were briefed on aspects of it as it spread among investors in New York and elsewhere pro- vide a glimpse of how elite traders had access to information from the administration that helped them gain financial advantage during a chaotic three days when global markets were teetering. The memo was occasionally breathless and inchoate. It ap- pears to have overstated the grav- ity of some administration offi- cials’ warnings to the group and Trump Advisers’ Warnings On Virus Fueled Sell-Off Private Worries Spread to Investment World as White House Painted a Rosy Picture By KATE KELLY and MARK MAZZETTI Continued on Page A6 LONDON — From France to Russia, from Britain to the Czech Republic, European leaders are confronting a surge in coronavi- rus cases that is rapidly filling hospital beds, driving up death tolls and raising the grim prospect of further lockdowns in countries already traumatized by the pan- demic. The continent, which once com- pared favorably to the United States in its handling of the pan- demic, is being engulfed by a sec- ond wave of infection. With an av- erage of more than 100,000 new in- fections per day over the past week, Europe now accounts for about one-third of new cases re- ported worldwide. In the most vivid sign of the de- teriorating situation, President Emmanuel Macron of France on Wednesday imposed a curfew of 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. in the Paris region and eight other metropolitan ar- eas, beginning on Saturday. “The virus is everywhere in France,” he told the French public, as he de- clared a state of emergency. The resurgence has prompted officials to close bars and clubs in Prague and Liverpool, and to make face masks mandatory in public indoor spaces in Amster- dam. In Russia, which reported its largest daily increase in infections on Wednesday, President Vladi- mir V. Putin sought refuge from the torrent of bad news by an- nouncing that his government had approved a second vaccine. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany better captured the anx- ious mood when she said on Tues- day, “I am watching with great concern the renewed increase in infection numbers in almost every part of Europe.” Ms. Merkel add- ed, “We mustn’t throw away what we achieved via restrictions over the past months.” To some extent, Europe’s set- back is hardly a surprise. Public health experts have long warned that the virus could roar back when the days grew colder, driv- ing people indoors, where the risk of transmission is far greater. In several European countries, lockdowns were lifted abruptly, sowing complacency among peo- ple who felt they could return to their normal lives. In the face of in- tense political pressures, Euro- pean leaders have been reluctant to impose new, economically dam- Curfew in Paris In Virus Surge Across Europe By MARK LANDLER Disinfecting a medical worker in the Covid-19 ward of a Spanish hospital. Europe has been reporting over 100,000 new cases a day. BERNAT ARMANGUE/ASSOCIATED PRESS Continued on Page A8 WASHINGTON — As Judge Amy Coney Barrett has strained to present herself this week as someone who would join the Supreme Court without having made up her mind on pivotal cases, she was haunted by the long and exceed- ingly public record of the voluble man who nominated her. Like others who have found themselves politically entangled with President Trump, Judge Barrett has struggled over two days to separate herself from the trove of tweets and other pro- nouncements by Mr. Trump on his legal views and demands, many of which call into question the very notion of an independ- ent judiciary. He has said incessantly that he wants the Affordable Care Act overturned. After the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he said he needed a full complement of nine justices on the court to resolve any legal battle over the coming election, which he has warned without evidence will most likely be fraudulent. In his 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump de- clared that under his administra- tion, the reversal of the Roe v. Wade decision establishing a federal right to abortion would “happen automatically, in my opinion, because I am putting pro-life justices on the court.” The president, who early on recognized the power of Su- preme Court confirmation fights to motivate voters on the right, has gone much further than his predecessors in publicly defining what he expected out of a Su- preme Court justice. Judge Bar- rett, in turn, has been under more pressure than past nomi- nees to demonstrate her inde- pendence, often leaving Demo- crats skeptical of her claims of neutrality. “Unfortunately, that is the cloud, the orange cloud, over your nomination as it comes before us here in the Senate Judiciary Committee,” Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Trump’s Words Haunt a Tight-Lipped Nominee By CARL HULSE Continued on Page A19 NEWS ANALYSIS Barrett Strains to Show Distance From Man Who Selected Her A limousine carrying the Thai queen got a close-up view of pro-democracy protests in Bangkok. PAGE A10 INTERNATIONAL A10-12 A Glimpse of Discontent Amid worries over vacated office build- ings in Midtown, big tech companies have continued with their plans to expand in New York City. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-7 Big Tech Takes New York Russia said a Trump aide’s claim of agreement in principle on extending a treaty was “nonsense.” PAGE A11 No Nuclear Deal Imminent A woman being charged with falsely calling the police on a Black bird- watcher in Central Park actually called twice, prosecutors revealed. PAGE A23 White Accuser Doubled Down Frank Bruni PAGE A26 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 Among the many tasks of the designer Marc Jacobs’s personal assistant? Shooting a documentary about their lives during the pandemic. PAGE D1 THURSDAY STYLES D1-6 An Assistant With Access Experts said the delays, a common occurrence, show that the drug makers are following safety protocols. PAGE A4 TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-9 Good Signs in 3 Trial Pauses Most Latino voters favor Democrats, but Hispanic men are an enduring part of President Trump’s base. PAGE A13 NATIONAL A13-23, 28 Macho Appeal of the President Nick Saban, the Alabama football coach, said he tested positive for the coronavirus, deepening the pandemic’s turmoil in the SEC. PAGE A10 SPORTSTHURSDAY B8-10 Alabama Coach Tests Positive Late Edition VOL. CLXX . . . No. 58,847 © 2020 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020 Today, mostly sunny, breezy, high 74. Tonight, increasingly cloudy, mild, low 60. Tomorrow, cloudy, showers developing, thunderstorms, high 65. Weather map appears on Page A28. $3.00
