https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...avery/ar-BB16JZWx?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=mailsignout
- President Donald Trump defended people who support the Confederate flag and said they don't necessarily support it because of the Confederacy's deep-rooted ties to slavery.
- "Well, people love it, and I don't view — I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery," Trump told CBS News in an interview.
- Confederate leaders explicitly laid out in their constitution that the main goal of the Confederacy was to preserve slavery.
- The president also lashed out when he was asked why African-Americans are still dying in police custody.
- "So are white people," Trump said. "What a terrible question to ask. So are white people, more white people by the way, more white people."
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended people who support the Confederate flag and said they don't necessarily support it because of the Confederacy's deep-rooted ties to slavery.
"Well, people love it, and I don't view — I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery," Trump told CBS News in an interview.
I'm confused, if people who love the Confederacy don't love it because of slavery then why do they love it?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/07/09/milley-confederate-bases-trump/?outputType=amp
"The military’s top officer on Thursday described Confederate leaders as traitors and said he is taking a “hard look” at renaming 10 Army installations that honor them, despite President Trump’s opposition to any changes.
“The Confederacy, the American Civil War was fought, and it was an act of rebellion,” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, told members of the House Armed Services Committee. “It was an act of treason at the time against the Union, against the Stars and Stripes, against the U.S. Constitution, and those officers turned their back on their oath.”
The Army is now about 20 percent black, he said.
“For those young soldiers that go onto a base — a Fort Hood, a Fort Bragg or a fort wherever named after a Confederate general — they can be reminded that that general fought for the institution of slavery that may have enslaved one of their ancestors,” he said.
It seems like Trumps Chairmen of Joint Chiefs of Staff believes the confederacy were traitors and slavers. I guess Trump is defending people who sympathize with slavers and traitors. What would that make Trump?