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President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Kenosha
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump appeared to legitimise race war after defending a 17-year-old white supremacist who shot dead two men in the Wisconsin town of Kenosha last week.
Mr Trump refused to condemn the killings and claimed that Kyle Rittenhouse had been acting in self-defence after opening fire at protesters, who gathered after police shot unarmed black man Jacob Blake seven times in the back.
“That was an interesting situation,” he said during a Monday press conference.
Nigeria’s presidential spokesman grovels to the West in response to Washington intimidation, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
