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Trump in Tulsa
If Donald Trump had set out to offend black America and send a coded signal to his racist supporters he could not have done a better job by holding his campaign rally at the site of the nation's worts racist massacre, says PETER FROST
Trump had planned his first comeback from the virus lockdown for June 19 in Tulsa, Oklahoma — the chosen place and date could not have been worse unless Trump’s sole aim was to offend as many black people as possible.
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
MATT KERR takes stock of a night of by-elections, where the long repeated warnings for Labour and the political class remain stubbornly unheeded
Trump Is Building a Legal and Military Architecture to Invade Latin America. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Despite forming most of Britain’s trade union membership, women continue to endure harassment, inequality and minimal support for their sex-based rights, warns VALERIE COULTAS
PRESIDENT TRUMP told the world that he had a million requests for tickets for his first election rally since the coronavirus crisis. In the event his audience didn’t even half fill the venue.
Whole empty sections had just a single fan practising the best examples of social distancing ever seen. Never mind about one or two metres, in Tulsa, it seems, everyone could have the full nine yards.
Trump first denied that the place wasn’t full and then said that wicked protesters had kept the crowds away.
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