United States: Obama indirectly criticizes Trump for his management of the epidemic

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In the United States, the virtual face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump and Barack Obama continues. While the current president continues to cry out against the plot, dubbed "Obamagate", the former Democratic president took advantage of a virtual graduation ceremony to indirectly criticize the management of the health crisis by the White House.

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With our correspondent in New York, Loubna Anaki

Invited to speak at the ceremony of the network of black universities, Barack Obama called on young graduates to "  invest and seize their chance in this period when the country's leaders seem to be groping in the face of the Coronavirus crisis  ".

“  This pandemic has finally revealed the fact that many of our leaders do not know what they are doing. Some do not even try to pretend !  added Obama.

A barely veiled criticism addressed to the current American administration.
In response, the current president has once again tweeted in capital letters: "  OBAMAGATE  ".

OBAMAGATE!

Since last week, Donald Trump has accused his predecessor of being behind a plot to sabotage his mandate . 

In the same speech yesterday, Barack Obama also underlined the dramatic consequences of the Covid-19, and more broadly of racism, on the black community. 

"  We see it in the number of significant contaminations ... As we see when a black man is jogging and people decide to arrest, interrogate and shoot him if he does not answer their questions  , said Barack Obama. 

For Barack Obama, this situation shows "  that the status quo is not working and that much remains to be done for the black American community  ".

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