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Trump’s Immoral Equivalence Between George Washington and Robert E. Lee
HISTORY LESSON
The president ignores history and context to blur the lines between slave-holding Founding Fathers and slave-keeping Confederates. It’s dangerous and ignorant.
John Avlon
Published
Aug. 17 2017
12:43PM EDT
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