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Trump Golf Course erects Civil War monument and liberals are upset
cnbc.com ^ | 11/25/2015 | Nicholas Fandos

Posted on 11/25/2015 10:39:04 AM PST by Trumpinator

In an undated handout photo, a plaque at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., commemorates a stretch of the Potomac as the “River of Blood” due to casualties there during the Civil War.

Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club's two courses, Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating "The River of Blood."

"Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot," the inscription reads. "The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as 'The River of Blood.'"

The inscription, beneath his family crest and above Mr. Trump's full name, concludes: "It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!"

Like many of Mr. Trump's claims, the inscription was evidently not fact-checked.

"No. Uh-uh. No way. Nothing like that ever happened there," said Richard Gillespie, the executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, a historical preservation and education group devoted to an 1,800-square-mile section of the Northern Virginia Piedmont, including the Lowes Island site.

"The only thing that was remotely close to that," Mr. Gillespie said, was 11 miles up the river at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in 1861, a rout of Union forces in which several hundred were killed.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: agitprop; battleofballsbluff; dixie; faketrumpfan; rowsersford; trump; virginia
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To: DoodleDawg

Since this is so important, you should not sleep until it is.


81 posted on 11/25/2015 12:32:31 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Trumpinator

History is history.. LIBERALS are FULL of $HIT.


82 posted on 11/25/2015 12:34:06 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Trumpinator

Liberals are always upset about something someone said, or didn’t say, or something that they think someone else thinks. They are the most unhappy bunch of lunatics in the world. They all belong in straightjackets and in padded cells.


83 posted on 11/25/2015 12:45:50 PM PST by euram
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To: erlayman
He is running for president for heaven’s sake and needs to be able to present at least a token offer an evidence to corroborate a historical claim of such supposed major import.

Well of course he should. The fact that it doesn't matter to his supporters is what chaps you. Keep trying though something is bound to make a difference sooner or later.

84 posted on 11/25/2015 12:48:02 PM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: Trumpinator

Liberals are always upset. If there is nothing to get upset over, they will fabricate a reason. I recall them claiming an innocent Penney’s tea kettle looked like Hitler.


85 posted on 11/25/2015 12:54:52 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: Trumpinator

This incident is a dog bites man story. It points out that Trump has no class. He is an ignorant boor. It is almost funny in a way. A historical marker to an event that never happened. But nobody should expect otherwise. Did you see the interview with Barbara Walters. Did you see Trump’s apartment. Who is his decorator, Tony Montana. All he needed to cap it off would have been a velvet painting of Elvis. We have sunk real low as a people. We used to follow real intellects like Jefferson, Clay, Lincoln, etc. But today, my God it is shameful. Trump, Herself, Comrade Sanders, Carson. We have truly become dirtbag nation.


86 posted on 11/25/2015 1:09:56 PM PST by gusty
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To: Trumpinator

wonder what would happen if every trump supporter took every opportunity to let the media know how much they support trump.

it’s a psy-op...

:-)


87 posted on 11/25/2015 1:19:19 PM PST by SteveH
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To: tanknetter
But is it a lie, or is it an error?

You're right. We should give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it's an error. Now that it's been brought to Trump's attention I'm sure he will rush to correct it.

88 posted on 11/25/2015 1:49:48 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: mbarker12474

Is that you Carl Rove? Very petty criticism.


89 posted on 11/25/2015 1:51:28 PM PST by theoldmarine (Saved by grace through Faith)
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To: VanDeKoik
Since this is so important, you should not sleep until it is.

Trump exaggerating or embellishing, or even making up, the truth is nothing to be surprised about anymore. I'll sleep just fine.

90 posted on 11/25/2015 1:53:35 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: mbarker12474

“Mr. Trump installed a flagpole...

Did he mix the cement himself?

Has he ever even been to Sterling Va?” — mbarker12474

Is that you, Carl Rove, very petty criticism. (Or maybe its that faithful, fruitcake critic, GeronL (short for Gerontological Loser) trolling under a different name. Having fun here.


91 posted on 11/25/2015 1:53:49 PM PST by theoldmarine (Saved by grace through Faith)
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To: DoodleDawg

You’re seriously not helping to cause.

If this was a thing with Cruz, I would have brushed it off as nonsense as well. But you guys need everything you can get, no matter how pathetic.


92 posted on 11/25/2015 2:11:47 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: DoodleDawg
But is it a lie, or is it an error?
You're right. We should give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it's an error. Now that it's been brought to Trump's attention I'm sure he will rush to correct it.


And that will free you up to find more ridiculous and petty things to object to. "Liberal is, as liberal does".
93 posted on 11/25/2015 2:12:16 PM PST by mkjessup (If you really support Ted Cruz, don't be trashing Trump, Cruz doesn't, why should you?)
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To: All
Experience taught me a few things.
One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.
The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know.
And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Donald Trump



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94 posted on 11/25/2015 2:13:20 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Trumpinator

God bless Trump.


95 posted on 11/25/2015 2:14:31 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: VanDeKoik; All
If this was a thing with Cruz, I would have brushed it off as nonsense as well. But you guys need everything you can get, no matter how pathetic.

Pathetic is all they've got. Just like Priebus, Rove, and the rest of the GOPe.

ALL of these Trump-haters need to refresh themselves with what our Esteemed Founder said recently which is:

"It's Trump or Cruz, everyone else is an amnesty pimp"

If they really support Cruz, they do their candidate no service by trying to tear down Trump, as my tagline says.
96 posted on 11/25/2015 2:14:49 PM PST by mkjessup (If you really support Ted Cruz, don't be trashing Trump, Cruz doesn't, why should you?)
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To: VanDeKoik

It isn’t nonsense for anyone when they make a big ostentatious point of stating publicly how greatly honored I am to do such and such and show through your actions later that in reality you couldn’t be pressed to give a crap.


97 posted on 11/25/2015 2:30:06 PM PST by erlayman
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To: mkjessup
And that will free you up to find more ridiculous and petty things to object to.

And I certainly wouldn't want to miss that. So be sure and let me know when he changes it. Or even admits it is incorrect to begin with.

98 posted on 11/25/2015 2:37:41 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: sphinx

LoL!


99 posted on 11/25/2015 3:13:40 PM PST by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: Trumpinator

At Shiloh, TN, there is a pond known as The Bloody Pond.
I’m 69. My parents used to take me to Shiloh (my great
great grandfather was a Rebel at Shiloh). Back then,
The Bloody Pond WAS very dark, deep crimson red. Has faded
over the past century. In his words to my grandmother,
“Izora, it was awful, just awful, the worst thing I’ve ever
seen in my life. I don’t know for sure if I killed anybody
or not; but don’t see how I could have kept from it because
it was such a mess!” - Daddy always said, “War is hell!”
He was a combat veteran of WWII, in the worst of it and he
knew.


100 posted on 11/25/2015 3:23:00 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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