“We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can’t understand our country. As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built…”
—U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, July 26, 2020. [And they dare to call it the Party of Lincoln.]
“If chattel slavery…where it was legal to rape, torture, and sell human beings for profit — were a ‘necessary evil,’ …it’s hard to imagine what cannot be justified if it is a means to an end,”
—New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, in response to Cotton’s remarks, July 26, 2020.
“I just saw our new Trump-Reagan Commemorative Coin Sets and WOW, these coins are beautiful — I took one look and immediately knew that I wanted YOU to have a set.”
—Donald Trump, in true snake-oil salesman fashion, hawking the commemorative “coins” showing him shaking hands with Pres. Ronald Reagan back in 1987 in exchange for a $45 campaign “contribution.”
“We own the likeness of President Reagan and they used his image for the coin without our consent.”
—Reagan Foundation marketing officer Melissa Giller, July 25, 2020, demanding that the Trump campaign cease the sale of the “coins.”
“I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the Yankees on August 15th.”
–Trump tweet, July 26, at 2:44 p.m. [Those damned bone spurs on his elbow, don’t you know.]
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