Trump Lawyer Forwards Secessionist Email

[struggle4progress]

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MATT APUZZO
AUG. 16, 2017

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter “has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.”

The email forwarded by John Dowd, who is leading the president’s legal team, painted the Confederate general Robert E. Lee in glowing terms and equated the South’s rebellion to that of the American Revolution against England. Its subject line — “The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville” — was a reference to comments Mr. Trump made earlier this week in the aftermath of protests in the Virginia college town.

“You cannot be against General Lee and be for General Washington,” the email reads ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/politics/trump-lawyer-email-race-charlottesville.html

[First Speaker]

1. I rather think you can, actually...

...a gentleman named Lincoln would have agreed with me. And Grant. And especially, perhaps, Sherman...Mr Dowd might do well to remember William Tecumseh Sherman...

[procon]

2. Its a myth, the honorable General Robert E. Lee was an oathbreaker.

He chose to resign from the United States Army and take up arms under the flag of the Confederacy to overthrow America, and that makes him a traitor to his country.

There is no normalizing or whitewashing of civil war history, and no matter how hard Trump and his lying ass kissers try to tell us their fairy tale version, Lee remains a traitor.

[uponit7771]

3. they're all fuckin racist

[ProudLib72]

4. None of this shit exonerates tRump

All it does is prove that one racist wrote an email to another racist who happens to be employed by the biggest racist of them all. Let the records show that tRump's personal lawyer is racist scum.