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In reply to the discussion: Sedition? [View all]

Jack Valentino

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15. Abraham Lincoln would order Trump SHOT----
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 09:48 PM
Dec 2

probably two or three times, just to make sure!



Yeah, Lincoln pardoned a good number of Union soldiers who were condemned to die---
but mostly guys who fell asleep on guard duty, or ran away from a fight---
those he referred to as 'leg cases'--
"if Almighty God gives a man a cowardly pair of legs how can he help their running away with him?"


War crimes would be another matter entirely.

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