Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

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, “there literally is no difference between the two men.”

The contents of the email are at the heart of a roiling controversy over race and history that turned deadly last weekend in Charlottesville, where white nationalist groups clashed with protesters over the planned removal of a statue of Lee. An Ohio man with ties to white nationalist groups drove his car through a crowd, killing one woman and injuring many others, authorities say.

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

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Was this Perry Mason’s approach to defending a client?

[Maeve]

1. One fought the British, one fought the Union

Dowd can go to hell

[Major Nikon]

8. One fought against oppression, one fought for oppression

So there's that

[FakeNoose]

11. This guy Dowd must have flunked high school history class

... But maybe I shouldn't assume he even went to high school.

[vkkv]

2. Idiots usually don't surrond themselves with the best of people.. nt

[flibbitygiblets]

3. It's like 45 is daring congress to renounce him, but they won't. Maybe it's a test?

All they do is tweet "strongly worded concern" about some unknown person (could be anybody!?) who should, you know, be an unwavering leader who renounces racism in unequivocal terms.

Every news network (even FOX!) invited every Republican member of congress to come on the air and either support or renounce the president. Apparently they all had plans to wash their hair today.

They are cowards, every damn last one of them.

[Leghorn21]

5. 10-4, gibs - I just wrote on another thread, man oh man, do these goppers know something

we don't?? "Cowards" or - privy to some shit I cannot imagine?

Creepy as hell, though, no matter the cause...

[bluestarone]

6. they won't

because russia will out them

[bora13]

7. he is

in fact daring congress to impeach and convict him.

[BigmanPigman]

13. I had the feeling yesterday that he was almost asking to be removed from office

or assassinated since he was so blatantly provoking everyone, almost taunting them. I had to ask myself if he really wants to piss people off so much that they actually hurt or kill him. Would that make him a martyr?

[Leghorn21]

4. I know I know!! Gen. Washington fucked up so bad with that idiot Pickett's Charge, he was soooooo

close!! And Gen. Lee moved on that Delaware like a b*tch, and it was awesssssome!!

So rap ON, Johnny Dowd!

[Thor_MN]

9. This is one of the people that think that Lincoln was on the same side as today's Republicans,

They have no freaking clue that the parties switched identities> The "Party of Lincoln" is anything but. He would denounce today's Republicans, in fact, it was people with the mindset of today's Republicans that killed Lincoln.

[Paladin]

10. No difference between Lee and Washington? Are you shitting me?

Unbelievable. Just unbelievable. I want this sick and twisted administration booted out of D.C. at the earliest possible time.

[Deb]

12. Who pays his salary? Please tell me it is Trump or the RNC

Would be nice know the waste is theirs

[LeftInTX]

14. Meanwhile the Lee and Davis families:

The Lee heir says it would make sense to remove the embattled statue from public display and put it in a museum—a view shared by the great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis.

http://www.newsweek.com/robert-e-lee-statue-charlottesville-donald-trump-white-nationalists-651208

[SergeStorms]

15. Trump sure knows how to pick 'em, doesn't he?

His Cabinet, his Advisors, his Attorneys, his appointments...........trump has chosen the people who are LEAST qualified for the position. Yet all he can do is boast about how great he is, how he picks "the best" people, how he has "all the best words", EVERYTHING he DOES or HAS is THE BEST! We all know how amazingly untrue that is. He's the direct opposite of everything he says he is. He's THE WORST president. He's THE WORST negotiator. He's THE WORST HUMAN BEING ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET!

And I hate him. I've seldom used that word. Hate. The word itself is repugnant to me. But it's the ONLY WORD I can think of to describe how I feel about Donald Trump. I hate Donald Trump.

[lark]

16. Fascist PINO surrounds himself with other fascists.

No surprise at all there. Bannon, Miller and Gorka show what he cares about which is whites only and fuck everyone else. This is pretty amazing considering that his beloved daughter and son-in-law are Jewish. He's too stupid to realize that the people he idolizes, people who voted for him, hate them just because of their religion and the son-in-laws race. Either that or he just doesn't care and thinks he's in control of these racists, when he's not and they will quickly spiral out of control with his support and admiration.