Four things we learned from Barack Obama's fiery 2020 DNC speech - Face2Face Africa

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Four things we learned from Barack Obama's fiery 2020 DNC speech - Face2Face Africa

Former President Barack Obama took the gloves off on Wednesday night when he addressed the country at the virtual Democratic National Convention (DNC), laying particularly into his predecessor in the White House. Obama described the Trump administration as a failure that was led by a man who treated the presidency as 'one more reality show'....

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