The President Who Started the Klan

Is History a Prelude to the Loss of Civil Rights to Come from Trump’s Trials?

I found this picture in one of the old reports, looked up Skull and Bones society at Yale I recall, since Trump, the Bushes, etc. are all white Yale male alumni in this society, and was just terrified at seeing the Wiki website embelm

Could the real leader and founder of the Klan have been the president? That is a question I directly confronted the other day when perusing through the file from the Library of Congress of some killings and lynchings in the “Great Insurrection Period.”

Formerly known as the Reconstruction Period, but since hindsight is 20–20, it was nothing but politically organized murder and terror of black and white Republicans and cheating at the polls, along with rewriting laws around elections, to insurrect democracy and ‘negro rule’, as admitted to in the trial, so the reconstruction was of white supremacy, and the name Reconstruction and vast insult to black Americans. I couldn’t help but think of the historical connection to Trump. Just as I had finished some research, sick while on vacation, I looked at a notice pop up on my phone: Trump indicted in Georgia. Seven minutes ago. Weird timing.

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I had stumbled across this document in research of some Southern states in the post-Civil War period that last up until 1900. In North Carolina I was reviewing what Republican Governor Holden (back then Republican is liberal, Conservative is Democrat) wrote and did to repress the Klan and stop the violence in 1869–1870. He collected notes and…