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Trump doubles down on support for Confederate statues
In today's string of morning Tweets, President Trump repeated his equation of the nation's founders with Confederate leaders. He said again that Washington and Jefferson were slave owners, and he mourned the loss of what he called "beautiful statues and monuments" to Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Is that good politics?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readIn today's string of morning Tweets, President Trump repeated his equation of the nation's founders with Confederate leaders. He said again that Washington and Jefferson were slave owners, and he mourned the loss of what he called "beautiful statues and monuments" to Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Is that good politics? Philip Bump of the Washington Post has looked at recent polls.
