WASHINGTON, July 5 — US President Donald Trump yesterday vowed to defeat the “radical left” in an Independence Day speech at the White House, condemning recent efforts to remove or rethink monuments to historical figures as attempts to destroy the United States. Trump claimed without evidence...
A group of protesters burn an American flag, even as other protesters disagreed with the act, during a protest near Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington July 4, 2020. — Reuters pic
While criticism mounted over his handling of the pandemic, Trump said China must be “held accountable” for failing to contain the disease. “There have always been those who seek to lie about the past in order to gain power in the present, those that are lying about our history, those who want us to be ashamed of who we are,” Trump said yesterday. “Their goal is demolition.”
In a separate letter to donors, Biden said: “We have a chance now to give the marginalized, the demonized, the isolated, the oppressed, a full share of the American dream.” Yesterday's speech at the White House was capped off by fighter jet air shows and a fireworks display over the National Mall. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser had tried to dissuade the Trump administration from holding the event because it went against health officials' guidance during the pandemic.
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