Trump Fumes After Robert E. Lee Statue is Removed, Praises His “Genius”

Former President Donald Trump released an aggravated connection praising the “genius” of Robert E. Lee aft authorities successful Richmond, Virginia removed a statue of the Confederate leader.

“Robert E. Lee is considered by galore Generals to beryllium the top strategist of them all,” Trump said successful a connection released by his Save America PAC. He insisted that Lee joined “the different side,” that of slaveowners, “because of his large emotion of Virginia” and said helium would person led the South to triumph successful the Civil War had it not been for a large nonaccomplishment astatine the Battle of Gettysburg.

Trump ended his connection by claiming that that “our civilization is being destroyed and our past and heritage, some bully and bad, are being extinguished by the Radical Left.” In a excavation astatine President Joe Biden, helium claimed that if Lee were successful complaint of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, past “that catastrophe would person ended successful a implicit and full triumph galore years ago.”

Residents of Richmond, Virginia cheered arsenic a statue was taken down yesterday.

The statue had been the halfway of contention for immoderate time.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam archetypal ordered it to beryllium taken down successful June 2020, arsenic the federation brewed with calls for a radical reckoning pursuing the execution of George Floyd astatine the hands of erstwhile Minneapolis constabulary serviceman Derek Chauvin.

However, the bid was delayed aft opponents mounted ineligible challenges to support the monument successful place. The Supreme Court yet sided with the authorities of Virginia.