“So many mistakes were made. Look, I think, frankly, something could have been agreed upon,” Trump said at a campaign event in Newton, Iowa. “I think it could have been negotiated. All the people died. So many people died.”
The former president’s comments came a little more than a week before the first polls in Iowa, where he is far ahead of his closest rivals, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, in the polls.
Civil war has become an unlikely talking point in elections. More than a week before Trump’s comments, Haley responded to a question about the cause of the Civil War without mentioning slavery, which was the driving force behind the war. She has since backtracked, saying repeatedly that she thought the fact was self-evident.
Trump’s comments were not made in response to or reference to Haley’s comments.
In fact, before the Civil War began, there were a series of efforts to reach an agreement to preserve the Union. But the future of slavery in the South failed to be resolved through compromise, and the nation went to war with itself. Trump did not say how he would have averted the conflict, which he also called “so terrible but so exciting.”
“It was, I don’t know, it was just different,” Trump said of the war. “That’s what attracts me so much.”
2024-01-07 21:33:30
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