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| Donald Trump condemns the removal of ‘beautiful’ statues of Confederate generals and slave owners | |
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| Donald Trump has just tweeted once again about the events in Charlottesville, saying that the removal of statues of Confederate Generals makes him "sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart". | |
| He also tweeted "you can't change history, but you can learn from it," appearing to imply that keeping the statues up would be a reminder of the country's Civil War bloodshed and the scourge of slavery. | |
| Mr Trump has given several statements on the events and appeared to double-down on his initial comments that "many sides" were responsible for the violence in Charlottesville. | Mr Trump has given several statements on the events and appeared to double-down on his initial comments that "many sides" were responsible for the violence in Charlottesville. |
| During a recent news conference at Trump Tower, Mr Trump said multiple times that many of the protesters were there to "innocently...legally" oppose the removal of Civil War Confederate General Robert E Lee and that not all of them were neo-Nazis and white supremacists. | |
| He added that the media "would know [that] if you're honest reporters, but you're not". | |
| He had suggested: “George Washington was a slave owner. Are we gonna take down statues of George Washington? ... you're changing history, you're changing culture," suggesting that Lee and Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, who both led rebel Southern forces in the Civil War to secede from the US, were equivalent to the US president and Thomas Jefferson. | |
| In his tweets Mr Trump said the statues will "never" be able to be "comparably replaced," but counter-protesters | |
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