People For President Svante Myrick joins progressive advocates in denouncing statement made by Donald Trump that the Civil War "could have been negotiated."
Former President Donald Trump at a campaign stop in Iowa said America's Civil War could have been “negotiated,” a comment that drew immediate backlash from civil rights groups and historians alike.
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Svante Myrick, the president of People For the American Way, a progressive advocacy group, told USA TODAY Trump's comments demonstrate a “glaring ignorance of American history."
“By the time the Civil War broke out, there had been literally hundreds of years of negotiations around how, when and where to end slavery, and the southern states that seceded are what triggered the Civil War,” Myrick said. “And it seems like President Trump was implying that some sort of failure of diplomacy on behalf of Abraham Lincoln is what caused the Civil War.”
