Trump lies about the white supremacists and his reaction to Charlottesville. His supporters try to say he didn’t defend white supremacists when he clearly did. Sad!
Trump defends his “very fine people” comments on Charlottesville: “People were there protesting the taking down of the monument of Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that.” Fact check: There were many neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 26, 2019
Robert E. Lee owned 200 slaves (which he famously tortured) then led a rebellion to extend slavery which killed 620,000 people.
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) April 26, 2019
Saying you're not a racist, you just love Robert E. Lee is like saying you're not an antisemite, you just love Hitler. https://t.co/K3jEHpZFSD
Robert E. Lee owned slaves and brutalized them.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 26, 2019
Lee led an armed revolt against the United States to preserve and expand slavery.
And during that armed revolt, Lee's army captured free blacks in the North and enslaved them. https://t.co/hYRFhcn0tq
So let me get this straight: When federal law enforcement investigates a foreign attack on our democracy it's "treason," but a rebel leader who tried to topple the nation in a civil war is a "great general"…
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 26, 2019
Fox News reporter goes off on colleagues, saying their comments about Charlottesville on an internal email thread were like "something you’d read on a White Supremacist chat room.”https://t.co/EqP7LtLJfZ
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) April 26, 2019
NEW: Fox News was set to claim Trump didn't say "both sides" about Charlottesville, until a White House reporter called them out for sound like a "white supremacist chat room." https://t.co/LvBqUjra9q
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) April 26, 2019
A must read in light of Trump’s comments on Charlottesville this morning. https://t.co/RLWDlkQyWW
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 26, 2019
Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising a Confederate general https://t.co/ciQX9couB4
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 26, 2019
Today, President Trump said his Charlottesville comments referred to people who supported the “great general” Robert E. Lee. In 2017, @AdamSerwer wrote that “Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery”: https://t.co/36Sr9cr6X1
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 26, 2019
No better guide than @AaronBlake on how this revisionist history makes no sense –> https://t.co/HcSrvAEEbF https://t.co/XHSRcmOOTh
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 26, 2019
"The 'fine people' the president defended in 2017 were the same people chanting 'Jews will not replace us' and 'blood and soil.' Is this really a debate #Trump is eager to engage in? Again?"
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) April 26, 2019
V-good piece @stevebenen https://t.co/1iRH6JgZYV
Robert E. Lee was a traitor and a slaver. And as @AdamSerwer reminded us in 2017, “Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one.” https://t.co/mHx16L9IGn
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) April 26, 2019
I think about this exchange whenever people praise Lee and denigrate Grant. The Civil War did produce a brave, honorable general who fought for the right cause for the right reasons. That general was not Bobby Lee. https://t.co/kFh5bYvK1t pic.twitter.com/5w5l143z4o
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) April 26, 2019
Sad! 