Brian Bennett

Brian Bennett covers the White House.

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 22, 2020.

The Final Presidential Debate Was Better. But Who Is Left to Convince?

After the nearly unintelligible shout-fest of 2020’s first presidential deb...

After the nearly unintelligible shout-fest of 2020’s first presidential debate, the last match-up between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden felt like a throwback to something approaching normal. In a more sedate, more...

Donald Trump dances at the end of a rally at Carson City Airport in Carson City, Nevada on October 18, 2020.

With Dwindling Time to Turn the Race Around, Donald Trump Taps into Positive Thinking

Donald Trump was raised in the chapel of positive thoughts. While he was gr...

Donald Trump was raised in the chapel of positive thoughts. While he was growing up, Trump’s family attended the Manhattan church of Norman Vincent Peale, the evangelist who preached self-realization and wrote the 1952 best-selling...

President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 14, 2020.

Trump's Instinct to Attack Helped Win Him the White House. Now It May Be His Undoing

Republicans strategists warn that a trailing Trump needs to stick to the sc...

Republicans strategists warn that a trailing Trump needs to stick to the script in the final stretch before Election Day

U.S. President Donald Trump stands on the Blue Room Balcony as Marine One takes off from the South Lawn of the White House on Oct. 5

As Donald Trump Heads Back to Work in the Oval Office, His Colleagues Face 'A Dangerous Moment'

President Donald Trump is protected at the White House by snipers, sensors,...

President Donald Trump is protected at the White House by snipers, sensors, a new 13-foot-tall fence, and a dozens-strong force of Secret Service agents, but none of that managed to keep out the deadly and...

U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spent three days hospitalized for coronavirus.

Donald Trump, M.D.: How the President Is Shaping His Own Treatment

President Donald Trump didn’t want to go to the hospital in the first place...

President Donald Trump didn’t want to go to the hospital in the first place. Trump was admitted only after Chief of Staff Mark Meadows insisted he leave the White House when he spiked a fever...

White House physician Dr. Sean Conley, right, provides an update on President Trump's condition at Walter Reed in Bethesda, Md., on Oct. 3, 2020.

What We Still Don’t Know About President Trump’s Medical Condition

The American people have been left to rely on piecemeal, sometimes anonymou...

The American people have been left to rely on piecemeal, sometimes anonymous, statements from the White House

White House staff members wait to watch President Trump depart by helicopter for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 2, 2020.

President Donald Trump's Hospitalization Has Aides Wondering if More Should Have Been Done to Protect Him

Before a Marine One helicopter came to fly him to Walter Reed National Mili...

Before a Marine One helicopter came to fly him to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday evening, President Donald Trump spent the day nursing COVID-19 symptoms in his residence on the third floor...