President Trump on Friday defended saying there were “very fine people on both sides” of the deadly clashes in Charlottesville, Va., between white nationalists and counterprotesters in 2017.
The president claimed he had spoken to active duty generals who told him Lee, a U.S. Army officer who defected to the Confederate side and led the Army of Northern Virginia, was their “favorite general.” Though nominally about the preservation of a statue honoring Lee, the underlying objective of Unite the Right was to bring various factions of the largely internet-based alt-right movement together in real life. The rallies began with neo-Nazis marching through the University of Virginia campus carrying tiki torches and chanting “Jews will not replace us!”
stableford This is fakenews and cannot be trusted.
stableford You definitely don't know our History. If Robert E. Lee had won then the Democrats would still have slaves. If the Dems had not assasinated the Republican President Lincoln then Reconstruction would have been better. All of History needs to be preserved or it will be shaped.
stableford Just when you think yahoo couldn’t be any more pathetic they roll out this guy.
stableford The very first sentence of this slanted and inaccurate 'report' is an outright lie. Why should anyone believe a word in the rest of it?
stableford You and other media members are shameful as you continue to deliberately mischaracterize the President's remarks. His 'very good people on both sides' comment was in reference to the monument debate, he never said white supremacists were 'good' EVER!
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stableford We meet again Dylan. Your little left wing propaganda is not working. Robert Lee was a great general and the Civil War was not able slavery. Northern families owned slaves. Read the 11k comments on your hack piece. 99 percent of the comments call you out.
stableford Imagine being a senior editor at a media company and being completely historically ignorant. Or maybe he just expects his audience to be historically ignorant.
stableford This is epitome of Fake News...Totally dishonest reporting! R.E. Lee was a great general “It would be useless and therefore cruel to provoke the further effusion of blood, and I have arranged to meet General Grant with a view to surrender.” Lee was on wrong side of history.
stableford Fk Robert E Lee.
stableford Dylan Stableford: My advice to help expand your pathetic career is open a history book. General Robert E. Lee was a great General. Senior Editor at Yahoo. Thats like being head of the toilet scrubbing team at a daycare. Big tittle of nothing.
stableford Comments are the best part of that bowel movement Yahoo calls an article. Should be renamed 'Section to pile on the idiot who apparently WAS born yesterday'
stableford Just pick a struggle. Do you like soldiers that got captured/surrendered or not Mr President?
stableford One of the greatest generals ever!!
stableford Go look at the comments and see just how badly this anti-Trump article failed. Comments about 4-1 understanding what Trump said and meant. Oh, Trump denounced white supremacy groups several times at the original news conference.
stableford Haha this clowns bio says modern gentleman. What a joke. It should say liberal puppet with a small brain.
stableford America’s top lying machine 🤮
stableford Eisenhower Explains About General Lee (1957) 🤔
stableford This type of gross intentional misrepresentation of history is ironically the definition of the fascism that you ever so cluelessly accuse Trump of promoting yahoofakenews
stableford Pick up a history book. FACT 1 Robert E Lee was a great general, probably the best ever. So much so that both the union and the confederacy wanted him to lead their armies. FACT 2 Robert E Lee was anti slavery, but he chose to fight for his home, his family and his neighbors.
stableford This is the definition of journalism malpractice. Why don’t you just type “I hate Trump, I’ll try to mislead a few idiots into believing he is racist.”
stableford What is this douche’s fascination with enemies of the US?
stableford He was a great general. Just on the wrong side. If you knew history you would know Lincoln wanted him to lead the north. How stupid are libs
stableford He didn’t know that, he flunked history.
stableford Ahh, yes, he praises the man who led the traitors against America and who was on the side of slavery. Makes total sense.
stableford Fake News has the advantage of no study before reporting on a matter. Any credible reading of Robert E Lee, eg. designates him noble, if not, then reference this new definition f honor? No, Dylan is merely a Brown Shirt propagandist, a drone. MAGA
stableford To bridge the gap: Lee was the best General at that time. He was smart tactically and strategically in the field. South dominated basically until Gettysburg and that was a close call, thank you Colonel Chamberlain from Maine. But he chose the wrong side morally.
stableford Err...Lee was offered command of Union forces, but would not wage war on his home. You need to stop light treading on the fact, and think a bit deeper.
stableford He was a great General. What do you want? History or PC? Democrats loved him. And there was GOOD on both sides at C'ville. We were protesting removal of historic monuments. The others showed up and took over. Trump was Right, again.
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stableford Of course that was what he was talking about you fool. The idea he was talking about White Supremists is a delusion of those already convinced of his guilt. Your losing this war for the hearts and minds ya know? It is inevitable and only those of slight wit don't know. MAGA
stableford Your headline is propaganda at it's worst. It's pathetic beyond reason.
stableford General Lee WAS a great general, and very progressive for his time. He wanted black people to vote, and advocated for their free education. He also expelled white students who hurt blacks at his academy. Fyi, Trump never called supremacists and nationalists 'fine people'.
stableford I hope no one is paying you to be a 'Senior' editor. This is one of the stupidest articles I've ever wasted my time reading. Anyone with a brain knows Robert E. Lee was a great general. To suggest otherwise shows you are either brainwashed in pc garbage or didn't attend school
stableford You wrote a terrible article, you don't know history either. Lee was an amazing general, he also wanted slaves freed before fort Sumter but the wealthy class forbade it. Also I don't consider bat wielding antifa lunatics good people...do you? So what about his statement is wrong?
stableford Not the whole story.
stableford And somehow no one who voted for him will see a problem with this. That man literally went to war with his own country for the right to keep humans as slaves. He was a traitor. He most anti American to ever exist in the country. Yet for some reason our president is praising him.
stableford To be fair, Robert E Lee was a great general as was Erwin Rommel. Neither should be memorialized in the USA.
stableford Media continues FakeNews about Charlottesville. View the entire Trump comments on the situation and it is clear he was referring to the monument removal protesters. He condemned the white supremacist strongly..
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