{"id":32807,"date":"2018-10-14T01:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T01:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32807"},"modified":"2018-10-14T01:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T01:44:21","slug":"robert-e-lee-great-general-who-also-committed-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32807","title":{"rendered":"Robert E. Lee: &#8216;great general&#8217; &#8212; who also committed treason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/th-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-32808\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/th-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump just cannot bring himself to say what many of his fellow Americans already know.<\/p>\n<p>He praises Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee as a &#8220;great general.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t include that Lee was a traitor to his nation.<\/p>\n<p>Lee led the Confederate army during the Civil War, which was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Lee chose to side with his native Virginia, which seceded from the Union and joined the fight to take down the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the president keeps heaping praise on Lee&#8217;s military prowess. Sure, he was a brilliant military strategist and tactician.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2026 he also was a traitor.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigning in Ohio, Trump took up for Lee in front of an audience ancestors well might have fought against Lee&#8217;s Confederate troops. But, hey, he was a &#8220;great general,&#8221; according to the president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll recall that Trump was critical of efforts in Charlottesville, Va., to remove a statue of Lee from a public park. He also then, hideously, condemned the violence that erupted this past year, laying blame on &#8220;both sides.&#8221; He also said there were &#8220;fine people, on both sides&#8221;; one of those sides comprised white nationalists, Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>So the president circles back to praising Robert E. Lee. A &#8220;great general&#8221;? Sure. He also betrayed\u00a0 his country.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump just cannot bring himself to say what many of his fellow Americans already know. He praises Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. 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