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The Mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, is offering up her opinion on the brutal murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia. President Trump’s rhetoric incites violence against black people and there is no leadership at the Department of Justice right now, she says. And, Mayor Bottoms thinks she’s “a pretty great person”. keisha Lance Bottoms is on the shortlist of potential vice-presidential picks for Joe Biden. You need to take anything she says at this point through that lens. When she gives an interview on cable television, as she did Sunday morning with CNN’s Jake Tapper, she is auditioning...

Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams accused President Donald Trump this week of habitually lying during the coronavirus crisis out of “ignorance” and “fear.” “Let’s be clear: Trump lies. He lies out of ignorance. He lies out of fear. He lies out of habit, and yet he is incapable of accepting responsibility or accountability,” Abrams told Complex. Abrams, who is reportedly on the Joe Biden’s short list of potential running mates, said the country needs “a president who will actually tell the truth, take responsibility” like Biden. “He won’t tell us a fairy tale. The fairy tale will fall apart...