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Washington President Donald Trump billed his Monday appearance in the White House briefing room as a"news conference."
He did take about six minutes' worth of questions. But he devoted the first 20 minutes to a de facto campaign event -- another extended Trump attack on Democratic nominee Joe Biden, whom he tried to link to rioters even after Biden unequivocally denounced them during a speech earlier in the day. Trump criticized Biden's speech for not specifically identifying left-wingers or Antifa as responsible for the violence Biden was denouncing.
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