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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Every week we pick a few of our writers from the issue

and get them to read out their pieces to you. This week we're going to be joined by editor of the

Spectator's US edition, Freddie Gray, who writes about who the real Joe Biden is. And then it will be joined by Douglas Murray,

who talks about this new world in which allegations are made that can't be proved or disproved.

And at the very end, Katie Balls, our deputy political editor,

talks about the government's fears of a second wave.

First up, it's Freddie Gray.

It is usually a bad idea for a presidential candidate

to leave himself open to the accusation that he is soft on law and order. Yet last weekend,

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. did exactly that. He attacked the egregious tactics of the federal

officers trying to control the apparently never-ending riots in Portland, Oregon.

Sensing an open goal, President Trump's campaign promptly accused Biden of siding with the criminals.

In any normal election year, such an exchange would be a major flashpoint.

In the COVID-19 riddled anarchy cauldron that is America in 2020, nobody much cares.

Joe Biden can say pretty much anything or nothing at all, and his lead in the polls just

grows and grows. There's now fewer than 100 days until the presidential election.

America's cities are still burning, and the 77-year-old challenger, who has no idea what he is saying,

is thrashing the 74-year-old president who has no idea what he is saying. The Chinese must be quaking.

Team Trump are quick to insist that as November draws closer, and Vokesters begin to focus on the

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