Civil war “could have been negotiated,” according to Trump
On Saturday, former US President Donald Trump made the argument that "negotiation" may have prevented the Civil War, contending that Abraham Lincoln ought to have done more to avert carnage and that the struggle to abolish slavery in the US was ultimately pointless.
"There were a lot of errors made. To be honest with you, there was something that I believe could have been negotiated," Trump remarked during a Newton, Iowa, campaign stop. That could have been resolved, in my opinion. Everyone perished. So many individuals lost their lives.
The former president made these remarks a little over a week before Iowa's first-ever presidential caucuses, where he leads Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley handily in the polls.
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