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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.
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Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
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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