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Trump asks why the Civil War couldn’t have been ‘worked out’

‘Why was there the Civil War?’ Trump asks in interview

President Donald Trump wondered aloud in an interview set to air Monday afternoon why there was a Civil War and whether President Andrew Jackson could have averted it if he’d been in the White House.

Trump told journalist Salena Zito in an interview for Sirius XM that if Jackson, a populist for whom he has expressed admiration, had “been a little later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War.”

Jackson, a slave owner, was president from 1829 to 1837. He died in 1845. That was 16 years before the beginning of the Civil War. The war broke out over the issue of slavery and led to its abolition.

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