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(85,986 posts) Thu Sep 17, 2020, 03:47 PM Sep 2020

Trump pays tribute to Delaware slaveholder. Offers to place statue in 'his' national garden

...CBS News reporter Mark Knoller finds humor in this slap at black Americans who've endured centuries of monuments to men who enslaved our ancestors.

Mark Knoller @markknoller
In a veiled poke at @joebiden, Pres Trump paid tribute to Caesar Rodney, a Delaware politician who signed the Declaration of Independence. Noting that his statute in Wilmington had been taken down, Trump ordered one be placed in his National Garden of American Heroes.
3:31 PM · Sep 17, 2020·Twitter Web App