Lawrence: What Donald Trump Doesn't Know About Robert E. Lee | The Last Word

>>> PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS NOT AT THE NAZI WHITE SUPREMACIST
DEMONSTRATIONS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE THIS WEEKEND BUT
HE SPEAKS AS IF HE WAS WALKING AMONG THOSE PEOPLE AND KNOWS
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING. >> THOSE PEOPLE, ALL THOSE
PEOPLE, EXCUSE ME, I'VE CONDEMNED NEONAZIES.
I'VE CONDEMNED MANY DIFFERENT GROUPS.
BUT NOT ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE NEONAZIS, BELIEVE ME.
NOT ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE WHITE SUPREMACISTS, BY ANY
STRETCH. THOSE PEOPLE WERE ALSO THERE
BECAUSE THEYHEY WANTED TO PROTE THE TAKING DOWN OF THE STATUE,
ROBERT E. LEE. SO THIS WEEK IT'S ROBERT E. LEE.
I NOTICED THAT STONE WALL JACKSON IS KAUMG DOWN.
I WONDER, IS IT GEORGE WASHINGTON NEXT WEEK AND THOMAS
JEFFERSON THE WEEK AFTER? YOU DO HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF,
WHERE DOES IT STOP? BUT THEY WERE THERE TO PROTEST,
EXCUSE ME, YOU TAKE A LOOK THE NIGHT BEFORE, THEY WERE THERE TO
PROTEST THE TAKING DOWN OF THE STAT YOU'VE ROBERT E. LEE.
>> SO WE NOW HAVE A PRESIDENT WHAT SEES NO MORAL OR HISTORICAL
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GEORGE WASHINGTON OR ROBERT E. LEE OR
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
THEY WERE ALL SLAVE OWNERS BUT ROBBEST E. LEE WAS THE ONLY ONE
TO GO TO WAR AND KILL HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS FOR HIS RIGHT TO
HAVE SLAVES, TO SELL SLAVES, TO SELL A MOTHER TO ONE BUYER AND
THE CHILDREN TO OTHER BUYERS. THERE IS NO SHADOW OF A LEGAL
DOUBT THAT LEE WAS GUILTY OF TREASON P.
AN EDITORIAL INSISTED THAT ROBERT E. LEE SHOULD BE CHARGED
WITH TREASON. HE LEVIED WAR AGAINST THE UNITED
STATES MORE THAN ANY OTHER MAN IN THE LAND AND THEREBY HAS BEEN
ESPECIALLY GUILTY OF THE CRIME OF TREASON HAS DEFINED IN THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE TIMES WANTED TO SAY WHETHER GENERAL LEE SHOULD BE HUNG OR
NOT IS A MINOR QUESTION. THREE DAYS LATER, ROBERT E. LEE
WAS IN FACT INDICTED FOR TREASON.
HIS OPPONENT IN THE CIVIL WAR FELLOW WEST POINT GRADUATE
ULYSSES S. GRANT INTERCEDED WITH JOHNSON TO DROP THE TREASON CASE
AGAINST LEE. PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS VERY MUCH
IN FAVOR OF PROSECUTING LEE FOR TREASON BUT GENERAL GRANT WHO
WAS MUCH MORE POPULAR WITH THE PUBLIC TOLD THE PRESIDENT THAT
HE WOULD RESIGN FROM THE ARMY AND IN A PUBLIC PROTEST AFTER
TRAEON PROSECUTION OF ROBERT E. LEE.
SO PRESIDENT JOHN SON BACKED DOWN AND GOT FEDERAL PROSECUTORS
TO DROP THE CASE. ROBERT E. LEE HAD A CLOSE.
HE COULD HAVE BEEN THE CHANDER OF THE ARMY IN THE CIVIL WAR OR
COMMANDER OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.
HE MADE THE WRONG CHOICE. 40% OF VIRGINIA OFFICERS IN THE
U.S. MILITARY REMAINED IN SERVICE TO THE UNITED STATES
ARMY AND FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR ON THE UNION SIDE AGAINST THEIR
HOME STATE OF VIRGINIA. 40% OF THEM.
MEMBERS OF ROBERT E. LEE'S OWN FAMILY SITED WITH THE NORTH OVER
VIRGINIA AND THE SOUTH. HIS SISTER, CHOSE THE NORTH.
AND HER SON, JOINED THE UNION ARMY.
GENERAL LEE DID NOT JUST FIGHT FOR THE CONFEDERACY.
HE FOUGHT FOR SLAVERY. HE BELIEVED IN IT.
HE BELIEVED SLAVERY SHOULD BE ALLOWED IN THE NEW TERRITORY OF
THE UNITED STATES THAT SLAVERY SHOULD BE FORBIDDEN.
HE WENT TO COURT TO PERSONALLY FIGHT TO KEEP SLAVES.
WHO HAD BEEN PROOMISSED THEIR FREEDOM IN HIS FATHER-IN-LAW'S
WILL. SOME PEOPLE WANT IT KEEP ROBERT
E. LEE STATUE STANDING BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW THESE THINGS
ABOUT GENERAL LEE AND OTHERS WANT TO KEEP THOSE STATUES
STANDING BECAUSE THEY DO KNOW THESE THINGS.
ABOUT GENERAL LEE. THEY DO KNOW THE GENERAL LEE
OWNED SLAVES AND FOUGHT FOR SLAVERY EVEN AFTER A CIVIL WAR
GENERAL LEE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO PREVENT BLACK PEOPLE
FROM GETTING THE RIGHT TO VOTE BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN THEIR
INFERIORITY AND IN HIS OWN SUPERIORITY.
ROBERT E. LEE BELIEVED IN WHITE SUPREMACY.
BECAUSE ROBERT E. LEE MADE THE WRONG CHOICE MORE SOLDIERS DIED
IN THE CIVIL BAR ON BOTH SIDES. A LESS SKILLED COMMANDER OF THE
CONFEDERATE ARMY WOULD HAVE LOST THE WAR SOONER FOR THE SOUTH.
SAVING LIVES ON BOTH SIDES. DONALD TRUMP KNOWS NONE OF THIS
AND NEVER WILL. DONALD TRUMP AND HIS WHITE HOUSE
AND HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ARE UNDER INVESTIGATION TONIGHT
FOR AMONG OTHER THINGS COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA.
IF DONALD TRUMP IS PROVED TO BE GUILTY OF COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA
TO STEAL THE PRESIDENCY, THERE WON'T BE ANY STATUTES OF
PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THIS COUNTRY. BUT THERE MIGHT STILL BE STAT
ICE OF ROBERT E. LEE WHO COMMITTED TREASON AND THEN
FORCED AMERICA INTO ITS BLOODIEST WAR.
GENERAL LEE'S TROOPS KILLED AT LEAST 360,000 UNION SOLDIERS AND
GENERAL LEE LED ABOUT 260,000 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS TO THEIR
DEATHS. AND ROBERT E. LEE GOT AWAY WITH
ALL THIS. BUT HE LEFT A LEGACY THAT
CONTINUES TO KILL AMERICANS TODAY.

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