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WAIT! Donald Trump Is To Give A Speech Near the Site Of A Civil War Battle He Made Up?
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| Last Edited | RP Jun 10, 2016 07:02am |
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| News Date | Thursday, June 9, 2016 07:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club’s two courses, Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating “The River of Blood.”
When challenged on the historical veracity of a marker for a heretofore unheard of even in an equally obscure and undocumented war, this is what happened:
“That was a prime site for river crossings,” Mr. Trump said. “So, if people are crossing the river, and you happen to be in a civil war, I would say that people were shot — a lot of them.”
But no one died in that crossing, historians said, or in any other notable Civil War engagement on the spot.
“How would they know that?” Mr. Trump asked when told that local historians had called his plaque a fiction. “Were they there?” |
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