“He always said that he hated losers,” the South Carolina Democrat said of Trump on ABC News’s “This Week.”
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow April 28 at 10:24 AM House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn on Sunday offered a sharp rejoinder to President Trump’s lauding of Robert E. Lee as a “great general,” noting that Trump “always said that he hated losers.”
Rep. James Clyburn on Pres. Trump praising Lee: "Robert E. Lee was a slave owner and a brutal slave master. Thankfully, he lost that war. And I find it kind of interesting that the president is now glorifying a loser, he always said that he hated losers" https://t.co/Vh8H8NME6E pic.twitter.com/ouLrZe0uMb
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