‘The words leadership and Trump are an oxymoron’: U.S. and Canadian politicos trash Trump’s response to massive Black Lives Matter protests

'It's a little bit scary, and as long as Donald Trump is around I think that everyone's going to have what I call the 21 second pause that Trudeau took yesterday, before opening your mouth on it,’ says former Conservative Sen. Don Oliver.

U.S. President Donald Trump is receiving criticism from both sides of the ideological divide over his handling of the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in the custody of white Minneapolis police officers.Photograph by Shealah Craighead, courtesy of The White House

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BY ABBAS RANA

June 8, 2020

Donald Trump has failed to show leadership while handling COVID-19 and the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd, say political insiders, adding that by using inflammatory language to stoke racial tensions, the U.S. president is further undermining his own chances of getting re-ele...

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