After Donald Trump was condemned by basically every single non-Nazi in the universe for suggesting that both sides of the Charlottesville conflict were bad, and that there were some good people among the neo-Nazis and white supremacists, you’d think it’d be high time for his inner circle to chill out for a lil bit.
Not so. According to a report in the New York Times, Trump’s personal lawyer forwarded an email to a bunch of conservative journalists which basically echoes a shitload of Confederate propaganda and defends the military leaders of the slaveholding state.
John Dowd, who is leading the president’s legal team, sent the email with the subject line ‘The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville’ – obviously intended to justify Trump’s ‘both sides are wrong’ remarks on the violence at the Unite the Right rally.
The email claimed that the Black Lives Matter group “has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups,” and that there “literally is no difference” between Confederate general Robert E. Lee and George Washington.
(You might well make the point that there isn’t a great difference between the two men, considering they were both defenders of the institution of slavery, but the point being made here is that they’re both good.)
An excerpt, as per the NYT:
Dowd was apparently pretty unapologetic when the NYT contacted him about the email.
“You’re sticking your nose in my personal email?” he told them. “People send me things. I forward them.”
Indeed.
