“You could’ve negotiated that… this is something that could’ve been negotiated… that was a tough one for our country… if you negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was… that would’ve been okay.”
— Donald Trump, saying in a campaign appearance that the Civil War didn’t need to happen.
Anyone who’s struggled through junior-high-school, let alone high-school American history has had to slog through all the countless attempts by earnest and intelligent men of the South, the North and the Border to negotiate a workable deal to avoid a break-up of the Union, from the Compromise of 1850 to the unrealized Crittenden Compromise.
Just like all those tiresome tariff laws, the cascade of compromises are wearisome just to recall and remember.
But then those antebellum statesmen who spent over a decade looking for a deal didn’t have the genius and insight of a President Trump who could have negotiated a successful deal in 24 hours!
Yea….
Lets see if ole Donald can make a ‘deal’ out of ALL opf these criminal charges?