re: #373 Teddy’s Person
Trump would be one of Boss Tweed’s bagmen.
Naaah, Back in the Civil War days, Trump would have probably been one of those “political generals”, buying his way into rank by raising (I.e. paying for) a regiment in NY, and getting a fancy uniform to ride around in - and then blow it by getting his unit shot to shit at Antietam or wherever, and spend the rest of the war “commanding” a coal depot in Vermont. But still calling himself “General” for the rest of his life….
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