Donald Trump continued his push on Saturday to win the Republican presidential nomination with a pair of caucus rallies in Iowa, beginning at the DMACC Conference Center in Newton and then culminating in Clinton. His speeches come on the third anniversary of Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and a little more than a week before the Republican Iowa caucus commences on Jan. 15.

As for commemorating the solemn anniversary of Jan. 6, Trump lauded the insurrectionists, while labeling some immigrants as “terrorists” and prisoners and gang members. “And terrorists are coming in also. What they’re doing to our country is not — it’s it’s, when you talk about insurrection, what they’re doing? That’s the real deal. That the real deal — not patriotically and peacefully, peacefully and patriotically” he said, contrasting those who rioted as “peaceful” and “patriotic” against immigrants, who the four-time indicted former president continually paints as criminals.

“I’m so attracted to seeing it,” Trump said. “So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think could have been negotiated to be honest with you. … I was reading something and I said, ‘This is something that could have been negotiated … that was a that was a tough one for our country… If you negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was … but that would have been OK.”

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    9 months ago

    I don’t understand why everyone acts like the civil war was fought to make slavery illegal.

    They don’t, because the Civil War was fought to keep slavery legal.

    That is why the South seceded.

    Every single declaration of secession of every confederate state mentions slavery if not at the very beginning than almost at the very beginning.

    https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states

    I don’t know why you think they seceded, but it was undeniably due to the desire to maintain chattel slavery based on their own words.

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      9 months ago

      The issue is, you guys are listening only to the conservative version…

      By that logic 1/6 was because Biden stole the election.

      Fortunately that’s still recent enough only one side believes that, but you all got me worried what people will say 200 years from now

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        9 months ago

        No, I’m telling you what they literally wrote on the subject. I gave you a link to it. I suggest you read it.