Christina Wilkie on Twitter
Trump just took a question on the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. "People were there protesting the taking down of the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general, everybody knows that," Trump says.
At the center of the "Unite the Right" rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville last weekend was a protest of the city's plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee. White supremacists, neo-Nazis and others have made monuments to the Confederate commanding general a flashpoint — at times marching to keep them standing.
But Lee himself never wanted such monuments built.
"I think it wiser," the retired military leader wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, "…not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered."
That's why Trump thinks it's great.Protested so hard that they mowed down multiple people and killed one. He ain't that fucking great of a general bitch
Lee surrendered. And he was against equality and voting rights for African Americans. So what makes him so great?
How does he make fun of McCain for getting captured and call Lee great for losing the war? I don't get it.
POLITICO on Twitter
Trump defended his response to the violence in Charlottesville in 2017 when he said there were "very fine people on both sides." He said the was talking about people who "felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee. A great general, whether you like it or not."
why the hell does he feel the need to revisit what was unequivocally a neo nazi rally that ended up in the murder of an innocent woman and violence against many others
Thanking a white supremecist for anything is going to make some people mad.
Yeah can't wait for the guy that fought against equal rights to start shouting at the current nazi president. Woo hooLook, as an outsider, I don't know who'll win the Dem nomination, but I'm going to at least love the putdowns Biden is going to put on Turnip with stuff like this.
Lee surrendered. And he was against equality and voting rights for African Americans. So what makes him so great?
How does he make fun of McCain for getting captured and call Lee great for losing the war? I don't get it.
I said what I said (in the other thread). You're free to put me on ignore, or you can follow me around Era like a few others do.
It was this. Trump got called out once again for defending white supremacists, garbage-tier people where it's insulting to literal trash to dignify their ilk with calling them garbage really, so naturally he was stupid enough to dig the hole even deeper.I'm guessing because it was the centerpiece of Joe Biden's announcement video.