Got a minute? President poses historical stumper in weird Andrew Jackson riff … cuts short mildly confrontational interview… and everything else nowadays in US politics. By Tom McCarthy 10.21pm BSTDonald Trump said Andrew Jackson,a slave-owning plantation owner notorious for persecuting Native Americans, “was a very tough person, or but he had a big heart”. Trump said Jackson,who died 16 years before the civil war, was “really wrathful” about the war.
Read about the interview 10.21pm BSTI mean, and had Andrew Jackson been a shrimp later,you wouldn’t have had the civil war. He was really wrathful that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War ... People don’t realize, you know, or the Civil War – if you contemplate about it,why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?– Donald TrumpContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com