John Kelly Ignores Slavery And Attributes Civil War To ‘Lack Of Ability To Compromise’
The White House chief staff defended controversial Confederate statues.
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly disregarded slavery as a cause of the Civil War and praised Confederate General Robert E. Lee during an interview with Fox News on Monday morning.
“The lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War. And men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had to make their stand,” Kelly said during an interview on the cable channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” avoiding any mention of slavery, a key part of what “separated northern and southern states when they chose sides in the Civil War.”
Wow, #JohnKelly just coined Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as an honorable man & says Civil War was "caused by a lack of compromise
Kelly continued: “There will be, 100 or 200 years from now, people that criticize us for what we do, and I guess they’ll tear down, you know, statues of people that we revere today,” he told Laura Ingraham. “It’s dangerous, I think. … It’s just very, very dangerous and it shows you what, how much of a lack of appreciation of history and what history is.”
Lee was “an honorable man,” Kelly also said, despite the deadly violence that erupted at a white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia over the statue’s removal earlier this year. Read More Here
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