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Trump Civil War Comments Spark Controversy

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President Donald Trump is questioning why the Civil War could not have been avoided. In addition, he says President Andrew Jackson could have prevented it had he been in office "a little later." The comments immediately drew fire Monday from Democrats. They charged the president was ignoring slavery. In a clip of the radio interview released by the SiriusXM show "Main Street Meets the Beltway," Trump said, "People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?" He went on to say, "Had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn't have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart." Jackson died in 1845, 16 years before the war began. According to the Andrew Jackson Hermitage, at the time of his death, he owned 150 slaves.

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