Somebody Needs a History Lesson

President Trump’s personal lawyer [John Dowd] on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter “has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.”

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“You cannot be against General Lee and be for General Washington,” the email reads, “there literally is no difference between the two men.”

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Mr. Dowd received the email on Tuesday night and forwarded it on Wednesday morning to more than two dozen recipients, including a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security, The Wall Street Journal editorial page and journalists at Fox News and The Washington Times. There is no evidence that any of the journalists used the contents of the email in their coverage. One of the recipients provided a copy to The New York Times.

  NYT

Keep in mind when you read it that Trump said in that Tower rant that the taking down of a statue of Lee could lead to the removal of statues of George Washington. Some fool listens to everything he says and puts out shit like this to try to back it up:

And Trump's lawyer passes this on to people who are obviously a thousand times more intelligent? Some lawyer.

“You’re sticking your nose in my personal email?” Mr. Dowd told The Times in a brief telephone interview. “People send me things. I forward them.” He then hung up.

Some lawyer indeed.

As for some fool...

The email’s author, Jerome Almon, runs several websites alleging government conspiracies and arguing that the F.B.I. has been infiltrated by Islamic terrorists. He once unsuccessfully sued the State Department for $900 million over claims of discrimination.

Mr. Almon’s email said that Black Lives Matter, a group that formed to protest the use of force by police against African-Americans, is being directed by terrorists.

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Mr. Almon said that he had also provided information about the F.B.I. to the office of Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

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Mr. Almon, who is black, said in his email to Mr. Dowd that the protesters should “go back to the ghettos and do raise their children and rebuild places like Detroit.”

In a telephone interview, Mr. Almon said he sent the email to follow up on a phone call he had last week with Mr. Dowd. He said had called to offer damaging information about James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and to provide other information about the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign.

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“I don’t believe the president is getting the correct advice or proper information. Someone reading what I sent to Dowd will view Robert E. Lee differently.”

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Mr. Dowd circulated the email hours after the White House issued its own talking points to Republicans defending the president.

And now that he's been named, Mr. Almon is about to be one sorry fool.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Just sayin'.