After Virginia removed a 21-foot statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from the

state capital, former President Trump released a statement saying the U.S. would have succeeded

in Afghanistan if Lee had been in command.

Dude, he got his ass kicked in Virginia.

What do you think the problem was?

Too many trees?

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But first, a closer look.

The Biden administration moved to out several Trump holdovers, including Sean Spicer and

Kelly and Conway from Military Academy Boards, while the former president himself issued

a statement claiming that, let me see if I have this right, Confederate general Robert

E. Lee would have won the war in Afghanistan for more on this.

It's time for a closer look.

There's a simple truth about our history, which has somehow been muddied through decades

of self-serving revisionism by racists and apologists for white supremacy.

And that is that the Confederacy was a movement of anti-American traders and slavers who tried

to destroy this country.

I can't believe that even has to be said, but apparently it does.

I mean, there are people out there who don't even know what the Civil War was about.

Like, for example, the former president of the United States.

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