Politics

Trump’s ‘Great General’ Robert E. Lee Was a Traitor and a Bad Person

SOME STUDENT OF HISTORY

The president who calls himself a student of history either doesn’t know or doesn’t care much much about it.

Sophia A. Nelson
Sophia A. Nelson
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Sophia A. Nelson

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