Donald Trump appeared on Fox Information this morning, the place, throughout a characteristically weird interview, he prompt Abraham Lincoln may have averted the Civil Battle by reducing a take care of the South—which, as a reminder, wished slavery to stay authorized.
Requested by a 10-year-old who his favourite president was when he was “little,” Trump started by saying he “favored Ronald Reagan.” (Be aware: Trump was 34 when Reagan first took workplace, and 42 when he left.) Then he turned to Lincoln, who he believes was an incredible president—however may’ve been higher if he’d “settled” the Civil Battle.
“Nice presidents?” Trump stated. “Lincoln was most likely an incredible president, though I’ve at all times stated, why wasn’t that settled? You realize, I’m a man that—it doesn’t make sense we had a Civil Battle…. You’d virtually say, like, why wasn’t that [settled]? For example, Ukraine would have by no means occurred, and Russia, if I have been president. Israel would have by no means occurred; October 7 would have by no means occurred, as you understand.”
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It’s not precisely clear what Trump thinks Lincoln ought to have completed to “settle” the dispute between the North and the South, the latter of which seceded from the Union largely as a result of it wished to maintain enslaving individuals. Does Trump assume Abe ought to have come to the negotiating desk, Artwork of the Deal–model, and let the South maintain some slaves? As a result of that’s what it appears like.
As for the concept that “Ukraine would have by no means occurred…if I have been president,” or October 7 for that matter, these are claims that he has repeatedly made with zero proof to again them up. He did counsel on Thursday, although, that he would finish the warfare in Ukraine by siding with Russia, bizarrely claiming that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy “let that warfare begin.” (Actually, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.)
Elsewhere in Trump’s sit-down with Fox, he claimed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “very much into women’s health,” that Kamala Harris is “a low-IQ person,” and that in a Harris presidency, “you won’t have any cows anymore.”
