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With Riots Threatening the Nation, Trump Navigates Multiple Crises

With Riots Threatening the Nation, Trump Navigates Multiple Crises
President Donald Trump makes a statement to the press in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on June 1, 2020. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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President Donald Trump spoke for 99 percent of Americans in denouncing the tragic and criminal death of George Floyd and for approximately 90 percent of Americans in denouncing, in about equal voice, the widespread looting and arson in more than a score of America’s greatest cities.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.
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