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Trump Administration Will Reinstall Confederate Statue in Washington

Trump Administration Will Reinstall Confederate Statue in Washington

Albert Pike was a Confederate general and diplomat who negotiated alliances with slave-owning Native American tribes during the Civil War. The Trump administration will restore and reinstall the only statue that had honored a Confederate official in the U.S. capital after demonstrators toppled and set it on fire during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. The defaced statue depicts Albert...

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