Posted on 10/12/2018 7:13:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump praised Confederate Geader Robert E. Lee as "a great general" on Friday during a campaign rally in Lebanon, Ohio.
"So Robert E. Lee was a great general. And Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia. He couldn’t beat Robert E. Lee," Trump said before launching into a monologue about Lee, Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
"He was going crazy. I don’t know if you know this story. But Robert E. Lee was winning battle after battle after battle. And Abraham Lincoln came home, he said, 'I can’t beat Robert E. Lee,'" Trump said.
"And he had all of his generals, they looked great, they were the top of their class at West Point. They were the greatest people. There’s only one problem — they didn’t know how the hell to win. They didn’t know how to fight. They didn’t know how," he continued.
Trump went on to say, multiple times, that Grant had a drinking problem, saying that the former president "knocked the hell out of everyone" as a Union general.
"Man was he a good general. And he’s finally being recognized as a great general," Trump added.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 13, 2018 Trump has drawn criticism for his defense of Confederate statues, including those of Robert E. Lee.
He drew widespread condemnation last year following a deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., saying that white nationalist protesters were there to oppose the removal of a "very, very important" statue.
"They were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee,” Trump said at the time. “This week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?”
Trump, speaking at another rally in Ohio last year, said that he can be one of the “most presidential” presidents to hold office. "…With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that’s ever held this office,” he said to a crowd in Youngstown.
One man’s crazy is another man’s genius.
Lee a great general. The son of a bitch is responsible for the deaths of 700,000 Americans. A great general? Tell me something, if a thief broke into your home or hacked into you computer and wiped out your bank account would you admire his ingenuity in doing it?
So can a patriot hate the Federal Government and still love his state?"
They were called Copperheads and McClellan was the ‘64 candidate they backed.
You bastardize the English language here. The "Union"(USA) was never destroyed and existed, I'd say thrived during 1861 - 1865. For example, during that time, the Trans Cont. RR was completed and the westward expansion was still going gang busters. The only "existential" threat to the remaining states in the USA have was created in the minds of the 21st century re writers of history. i.e. Dummys like you.
Construction of the Transcontinental railroad started in Jan 1863. The railroad was completed May 1869. Almost 4 years after the war ended.
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Sorry to hear about your condition.
If he had accepted the Post of Commanding all of the United States Armies, would he still have been responsible for the deaths of 700,000 Americans
That proves my point even better. The Union, as some ill informed would say was supposedly in the existential fight of it’s life, STARTED a huge project like that in the middle of a war. A project that in no way helped war effort. LOL!
All the federal government did was to subsidize the railroads companies building the railroad by giving them federal land along the right of way. It was the business of the UPRR and CPRR to finance and build the railroad. So the Governments investment of time and resources was virtually zero in the project. Neither the UPRR or the CPRR were involved in the Civil War.
Lets’ see all of the pig iron that could of been used to make war materials was used to make useless rails. All the man power, 100,000’s of men and coolies were not needed in this “existential” fight? LOL
was there a lack of pig iron in the North during the war. Was there a lack of cannon for the Federal army or navy
How may Chinese coolees were drafted in California and sent to the armies in the east. By 1865 there were over 1 million men serving in the Federal army and Navy. More than adequate to deal with the rebellion.
So we agree then the talk about the North was in a fight for it's existence is contemporary BS. Bravo. You are learning....
never made a claim that it was. You learned that the Transcontinental RR was not completed during the Civil War as you stated in your post #365. Bravo, you are learning.
UPRR did not start laying rail on the Transcontinental RR until July 1865. CPRR started laying rail in May 1865
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