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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Feinberg

Biden addresses grief and healing at prayer breakfast – event Trump used to attack enemies and boast about The Apprentice

AP

For the second year in a row, the President of the United States delivered a speech to an annual interfaith gathering without discussing television ratings, bragging about the stock market, boasting of partisan political achievements or attacking perceived political enemies.

When President Joe Biden arrived at the 70th annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, he certainly had something to boast about. The night before, he had watched in the White House situation room as US soldiers conducted a successful operation to eliminate Isis leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the terrorist leader responsible for the group’s 2014 genocide against the Yazidi people in Northwestern Iraq.

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