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A Weekend Read: The Atlanta Trials & Race

You Can’t Talk About Trump’s Georgia Case Without Talking About Racism

TIME Magazine — IDEAS
Janell Ross is the senior correspondent on race and identities for TIME.
Janell Ross, TIME Magazine

As the final bars of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” filled the room, former President Donald Trump took the stage in Windham, N.H. The audience, many of them white New Englanders and veterans, chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A” had to settle a bit before Trump could launch into a winding, military-themed speech at the August 8 campaign rally.

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Rogues’ Gallery? Nine More Atlanta Mugshots — Now Out on (Blog) Bond

Mark Meadows

Mark Meadows was on the infamous call — detailed in the indictment — in which Trump urged state election officials to find the votes he’d need to win. Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman, also traveled to Georgia at one point to try and gain access to a state audit of absentee ballot envelopes. Meadows faces two felony counts in the indictment. Meadows is charged with racketeering and soliciting a violation of an oath by a public officer.

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Speaking of Coups, Two Reports, Bloomberg on central Africa, and Dyer on the U.S.

#1 – Bloomberg: Out of Africa, a New World War

By supporting the coup in Niger, Russia proves again that it sees its struggle against the West as a global war, just not a declared one yet.

Bloomberg Opinion-You can think of the unfolding disaster in Niger in four ways, from embarrassing to ominous, catastrophic and apocalyptic.

Embarrassing, because the country’s coup on July 26 is blowback for a clueless West:

Neither the hapless former colonial power, France, nor the waning superpower, the US, saw this coming.

Ominous, because it’s a windfall for Russia and China, as they vie with the West for influence in the region and world.

Potentially catastrophic, because it’s a setback in the struggle against jihadist terrorism and uncontrolled migration.

Possibly apocalyptic, if it marks a slide into world war. Continue reading Speaking of Coups, Two Reports, Bloomberg on central Africa, and Dyer on the U.S.