US President Donald Trump arrives for the independence day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2020. (AFP photo)
US President Donald Trump took the chance in his independence day speech to attack the "radical left."
"We are now in the process of defeating the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters," Trump said in Washington, DC, on Saturday.
His criticism was directed at activists and protesters taking on confederate monuments in America during protests against police brutality and racial injustice in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, an African American.
"There have always been those who seek to lie about the past in order to gain power in the present, those that are lying about our history, those who want us to be ashamed of who we are," Trump said. "Their goal is demolition."
He made the comments as peaceful protesters were marching down blocked-off streets around the White House, Black Lives Matter Plaza and the Lincoln Memorial in the fourth of July commemoration.
Speaking from the White House lawn, the president claimed that 99 percent of the fast growing coronavirus cases in the United States, with nearly 130,000 deaths so far, were "totally harmless."
"Well likely have a therapeutic and or vaccine solution long before the end of the year," he said.
The US commander-in-chief also attacked the media for trying to smear his 2020 presidential campaign.
"The more you lie, the more you slander, the more you try to demean and divide, the more we will work hard to tell the truth and we will win," Trump said
Meanwhile, Trumps Democratic rival in the 2020 presidential election decried the president in an op-ed for finding every day "new ways to tarnish and dismantle our democracy."
"We have a chance now to give the marginalized, the demonized, the isolated, the oppressed, a full share of the American dream," said the presumptive Democratic nominee in a message to donors.
SOURCE: PRESS TV
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