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    Why Obama Stepped In

    As Americans continue to protest and Trump calls for “domination,” the former president felt compelled to intervene.
    by Edward-Isaac Dovere Jun 04, 2020 5 minutes
    Source: Bill Pugliano / Getty

    Updated at 9:26 a.m. ET on June 4, 2020.

    Barack Obama didn’t want to outshine Joe Biden. He never wants to be seen as speaking for all black Americans.

    But the former president was too worried about the condition of the country to stay silent about George Floyd’s death and the protests that have followed. It was going to take more than the statement he put out on Friday, writing that Floyd’s killing “shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in America in 2020,” for him to feel that he’d done his duty. The , urging reforms? One hundred and ninety-four thousand “claps” on Medium, for whatever that’s worth. The tweet he sent as the sun went down on Monday night, a few minutes after Donald Trump returned from gassing protesters to make way for his Bible photo op, with a video of

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