Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top 5 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump has a really weird way of owning the U.S. coronavirus death count, Trump plans to appeal to Black voters by having a criminal justice reform advocate speak at the Republican National Convention, a cop claims that George Floyd purposely took a lethal amount of opioids, the postmaster general plans to address the discombobulation of the postal service to a Senate committee hearing this Friday, and suffragist Susan B. Anthony is set to be pardoned after an 1872 conviction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices