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Botany

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22. Trump lives on lies .... like a youuge battle of the civil war that took place on his golf course
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 09:52 PM
Feb 2016


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/us/politics/in-renovation-of-golf-club-donald-trump-also-dressed-up-history.html

Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club’s two courses, Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating “The River of Blood.”

“Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot,” the inscription reads. “The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as ‘The River of Blood.’ ”

The inscription, beneath his family crest and above Mr. Trump’s full name, concludes: “It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!”

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No. Uh-uh. No way. Nothing like that ever happened there,” said Richard Gillespie, the executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, a historical preservation and education group devoted to an 1,800-square-mile section of the Northern Virginia Piedmont, including the Lowes Island site.

“The only thing that was remotely close to that,” Mr. Gillespie said, was 11 miles up the river at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in 1861, a rout of Union forces in which several hundred were killed. “The River of Blood?” he added. “Nope, not there.”


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@ one time this alone would have been enough to end somebody's run for president.

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lmao nt retrowire Feb 2016 #1
Pants SO on fire Donald... PearliePoo2 Feb 2016 #2
Even in my faulty memory, I seem to remember keithbvadu2 Feb 2016 #14
I just wonder houston16revival Feb 2016 #3
Hope this doesn't hurt Trump christx30 Feb 2016 #4
Yeah right. PearliePoo2 Feb 2016 #5
Found this on Facebook this morning. mac56 Feb 2016 #6
Busted :) Ahpook Feb 2016 #12
Hmm... kentauros Feb 2016 #25
I guess being a leader of a white supremacist group isn't enough for Trump to decide. Cavallo Feb 2016 #7
Trump will need to be treated for 3rd degree burns on his ass meow2u3 Feb 2016 #8
Trump replied he didn’t “know anything about David Duke.” Botany Feb 2016 #9
Trump knew who David Duke was in 2000. Eugene Feb 2016 #17
... and knew Friday Feb. 26, 2016 at Christie endorsement press conference (there's video) and Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2016 #19
Trump lives on lies .... like a youuge battle of the civil war that took place on his golf course Botany Feb 2016 #22
Now say it again, this time like you mean it. Chemisse Feb 2016 #10
"Wink wink, nudge, nudge" tabasco Feb 2016 #11
They won't care elljay Feb 2016 #13
Yeah, they are saying Trump is too smart to play mainstream media gotcha question game. :eyes: . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2016 #20
He's tweeting Mussolini. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #15
Granted Trump would be a bad president as would any of the Republicans running cstanleytech Feb 2016 #16
Not the endorsement of TheRump, but it's TheRump's *brain dead* response on the issue a day later Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2016 #21
But Hillary is the devil. tavernier Feb 2016 #18
Trump never heard of Duke ..... imagine2015 Feb 2016 #23
Sergeant Schultz defense: "I know nothing!" nt King_Klonopin Feb 2016 #24
Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge . . . . no_hypocrisy Feb 2016 #26
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