{"id":106765,"date":"2021-09-09T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106765"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:03:50","slug":"traitor-racist-donald-john-trump-praises-robert-e-lee-and-denounces-vas-statue-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106765","title":{"rendered":"Traitor Racist Donald John Trump Praises Robert E. Lee and Denounces VA\u2019s Statue Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106765\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-106766 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trumplee-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trumplee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trumplee-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trumplee.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Nikki Slusher <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday the 21-foot-tall bronze statue of confederate General Robert E. Lee at the state\u2019s Capitol in Richmond was finally taken down. Immediately a crew cut the statue into pieces carefully before transporting them to an undisclosed government facility until its fate is finally decided. There were hundreds of supporters and activists cheering at the removal of a painful reminder of some the country\u2019s darkest times.<\/p>\n<p>The events that occurred last summer after the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, like the nationwide protests ultimately prompted Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to call for the statue\u2019s removal. Not everyone was thrilled, however, including Donald Trump. The HBIC of the GOP was upset with the decision, so naturally he decided to praise Lee \u2014 the greatest general of all time, the best anybody\u2019s ever seen. At least that\u2019s what Donald thinks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert E. Lee is considered by many Generals to be the greatest strategist of them all,\u201d Donald Trump stated even though nobody asked. \u201cPresident Lincoln wanted him to command the North, in which case the war would have been over in one day. Robert E. Lee instead chose the other side because of his great love of Virginia, and except for Gettysburg, would have won the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should be remembered as perhaps the greatest unifying force after the war was over, ardent in his resolve to bring the North and South together through many means of reconciliation and imploring his soldiers to do their duty in becoming good citizens of this Country,\u201d Trump continued even though nobody asked for him to explain any further.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s no doubt about Lee\u2019s tactical and leadership skills, he was also responsible for hundreds of thousands of Americans\u2019 deaths due to his role in leading the South in defending the right to own Black people as property. Lee is a prominent figure in the South, being viewed as a heroic leader in today\u2019s society through the Lost Cause campaign which historians define as an ideology that erases slavery as the reason for the Civil War and portrays the rebellion in the South as patriotic. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>Historian David Blight is quoted in The Atlantic saying that it provides a \u201cfoundation on which Southerners built the Jim Crow System.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s Comments on Wednesday somehow took a sharp turn from \u201chere we go again\u201d to \u201chow does he come up with this stuff\u201d when Trump made the claim that if General Lee had commanded U.S. troops in Afghanistan, we would\u2019ve been victorious many years ago. \u201cWhat an embarrassment we are suffering because we don\u2019t have the genius of a Robert. E. Lee!\u201d the former president said. It\u2019s important to note here that some of the general\u2019s advising Biden also advised Trump.<\/p>\n<p>While his comments are from living in a virtual reality, this is probably one of the less offensive statements the Florida retiree has made. Actually, they were exactly what we expected him to say besides that weird Afghanistan ad lib at the end. Insurrectionists gotta stick together these days.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nikki Slusher On Wednesday the 21-foot-tall bronze statue of confederate General Robert E. Lee at the state\u2019s Capitol in Richmond was finally taken down. Immediately a crew cut the statue into pieces carefully before transporting them to an undisclosed government facility until its fate is finally decided. 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