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    Fact Check: 'Whatabout' Those Other Historical Figures? Trump's Question Answered

    It's just simply factually wrong to compare Confederate generals to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
    by Steve Inskeep Aug 16, 2017 4 minutes

    "So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson's coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?.... [Jefferson] was a major slave owner. Are we going to take down his statue?" — President Trump, Aug. 15, 2017

    The president made this statement Tuesday while jabbing at reporters over a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., where white nationalists protested the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

    And he used."

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