Democrat congressman slams Trump's praise for Robert E. Lee: 'The president is now glorifying a loser'
House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn sharply rebuked President Trump’s praise of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, who the president praised as a “great general,” but the Democrat called a “loser.”
“And even if you could get beyond that at the end of the Civil War,” he continued, “Robert E. Lee asked all of his comrades to lay down their guns and to furl those Confederate flags, and if my memory serves and put them in your attics, so if the president is going to glorify Robert E. Lee, let's at least be consistent about it.”
“I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general, whether you like it or not, he was one of the great generals,” he said. But Biden sharply criticized Trump’s comments about the violence that ensued at the white nationalist rally, which left one young woman, a counterprotester, dead.
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