Former President Donald Trump said Saturday that he thought the Civil War “could have been negotiated.”
The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination made the remark at a campaign rally in Iowa, telling supporters that he is fascinated by the Civil War.
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“I’m so attracted to seeing it,” Trump said. “So many mistakes were made. See, there was something that I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. I think you could have negotiated that. All the people died. So many people died.”
During the nearly two-minute tangent, Trump, like fellow GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley did recently, failed to address slavery as the root cause of the four-year war that left hundreds of thousands of soldiers dead. He did not mention another reason or elaborate on his suggestion.
Trump continued to muse…
