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Actually...he's 100% correct just not in the context he's using it

A soldier in Lee's army was more likely to die than one in Grant's. Lee fought from strong defensive positions on territory he knew well. His one offensive thrust, into Pennsylvania, was an utter failure. Grant outsmarted him at Richmond/Petersburg. Lee's sheen is a racist myth.

Lee was a great taction against all except attrition. Lee made one blunder... Gettysburg. Him being a traitor and racist doesn't change his military prowess. With less men and equipment he carried the first 2 1/2 years of the war. Lincoln did asked him to lead the Union army.

Robert E Lee was a traitor not a hero and it’s high time we correct that perception.

A general who got thousands of his own troops killed in a treasonous and unwinnable insurrection, which he lost... to signal his virtues that subjugating people based on skin color is okey dokey. Right.

And I can never forget-a general who personally beat people fleeing slavery after volunteering to hunt them down

I’m pretty sure Trump has ZERO actual knowledge about Robert E Lee. In fact, it’s likely he thinks Robert E Lee is a Republican currently campaigning for the next mayoral election.

Rommel, Guderian, and Yamamoto were also great military leaders. Like Lee, they were also enemies of the United States. Difference is, Rommel, Guderian and Yamamoto were fighting for their countries. Lee was a traitor to his.

I know it is not politically correct nowadays but Lee was fighting for Virginia. Many of these men are quite conflicted, they had no great love of slavery but saw the North as an aggressor. I loathe Trump but facts are facts.

Facts are indeed facts. Lee fought for his country until his country invaded his state. Secession by VA was legal and Lee decided to defend his sovereign state from the tyranny of Lincoln.

Could you possibly show me where the legal mechanism for States to secede from the union? I can't seem to find it in my copy of the Constitution.

There was precedent in New England to secede in the early 1800s (war of 1812). But that doesn’t fit your narrative so you don’t want to go there. The entire country was founded on the idea of a right to secession from a tyrannical government.