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From: bentway5/3/2017 11:13:50 AM
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Trump has a Civil War memorial on his DC golf course — for a battle that never happened

Bob Brigham BOB BRIGHAM
02 MAY 2017 AT 20:21 ET
rawstory.com

President Donald Trump was roundly mocked yesterday for the historical illiteracy evident in his Andrew Jackson quotes. Now Golf Digest is revisiting an earlier scandal involving Trump’s ignorance of the Civil War.

“Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot,”
reads the inscription a faux historical marker on the course of the Trump National Golf Club, according to the New York Times.
“The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as ‘The River of Blood.’ ”




The battle never happened. “No. Uh-uh. No way,” Richard Gillespie, the executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association told the New York Times. “Nothing like that ever happened there.”

When Trump was informed by the New York Times that
three different local historians had said as much, Trump replied, “How would they know that? Were they there?”
Trump’s historical alt-facts are reminiscent of the major scandal when White House counselor Kellyanne Conway complained the press hadn’t covered the so-called Bowling Green Massacre.

The massacre never happened.

Not to be outdone, White House press secretary Sean Spicer repeatedly referred to an attack by Islamist terrorists in Atlanta.

The attack never happened.

The fake historical marker on Trump’s golf course, commemorating the fallen in a battle that never happened, was signed by Donald Trump. “It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!”
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