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Hey, media, think before you bash

The American media relished bashing President Trump for believing that President Andrew Jackson, who predated the Civil War by 16 years, could have stopped the Civil War. In so gleefully bashing the president, they show they have left their true calling - objective journalism - to lay stripes on a president they do not like.

They failed to report what President Trump actually said about Jackson: " … had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War."

Oops. He really did understand that Jackson preceded the Civil War.

There's more. Trump was also slammed for implying there could have been a way to resolve the Civil War without all the killing, battle and war. He was forgetting about slavery they said. How insensitive.

In laying this charge on Trump, they are forgetting about the tremendous courage it took Lincoln to prosecute the Civil War, and how there was not a slam dunk of consensus for his choice at that time.

I often tell my students that if I was President, I would have let the South secede. If I had been president, there would not have been a Civil War.

There would have been two countries, North and South. And eventually several more countries out West. We would be the North American Europe. Thank God for the courage of Lincoln.

Without the courage of President Lincoln, Donald Trump would not be an incredibly wealthy entrepreneur because the GNP of "Northeast America" would not have produced all that wealth. Trump, without that wealth would likely not be President.

So, news media, if things had worked out according to the Trump-Jackson thesis you belittled, in the way sketched here, there would be no President Trump. Maybe next time you should be a little more careful before you bash.

Larry Pahl

Streamwood

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