Trump Stokes Racial Divisions On America’s Independence Day
July 4, 2020
7:49 am
U.S. President Donald Trump has made a direct appeal to white voters four months before Election Day, accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history.”
He spoke at the foot of Mount Rushmore on the eve of 4 July Independence Day. America declared independence from Britain in 1776.
Trump dug further into American divisions offering a discordant tone to an electorate battered by a pandemic and wounded by racial injustice following the police killings of African-Americans.
He zeroed …
