The holiday that celebrates US independence from Britain is being used to bolster President Trump's false narrative that the country is doing just fine. | Analysis by StCollinson
This was originally published as the July 2 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe.For President Trump, nothing could be more natural than to stand alongside such giants of American history. On Friday night, he will travel to Mount Rushmore for an early Independence Day party, reviving the environmentally worrisome tradition of July Fourth fireworks over their massive carved likenesses.
After months of Trump's campaign describing former Vice President Joe Biden as"sleepy" and incoherent, a Fox News reporter this week asked Biden whether he had been tested for cognitive decline."All you've got to do is watch me," Biden responded,"And I can hardly wait to compare my cognitive ability to the cognitive ability of the man I'm running against.
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