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Keith Olbermann: Russia! Russia! Russia!

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lawhawk3/15/2017 6:06:47 am PDT

Today, Trump goes to Nashville to visit the Hermitage, the home of President Andrew Jackson. He’ll put a wreath on his grave.

No doubt that Trump considers him a hero. After all, Jackson was an unrepentant racist and bigot. He was a slaveholder and his exploits included the Trail of Tears.

Trump doesn’t seem to mind or care at the optics of the visit.

It’s also clear that Trump wont go to the interpretive center to learn a damned thing about Jackson either.

I was there just last year. It’s quite an interesting place, and they do try to provide an objective account of Jackson’s racist beliefs and his policies that led up to the Trail of Tears (the path of which runs through Tennessee).

Rather, he’s using Jackson as a template for his own beliefs and policies that are divisive and undermine the rights of minorities across the nation.