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DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Is it really unreasonable to conclude that the union would have been extremely unlikely to accept any "deal" that includes banning slavery?

I'm assuming you mean the confederacy, not the union.

Anyways, no, which is why I said it was an incredibly stupid statement for him to make on the surface. Trump was doing his usual blather of, "I'm the greatest dealmaker in the history of the universe and everyone listens to me just because". This is the moron who insisted he could solve both the Middle East peace process and the North/South Korea conflict with his magical dealmaker skills, two conflicts that have been raging for over 70 years and which have flummoxed the best negotiators of several generations; expecting Trump to have a rational thought process when it comes to "making deals" is ascribing to him a level of intelligence and reasonableness that he plainly does not possess.

Hence why I say him saying that the union "should have negotiated with" the confederacy is not the same thing as him saying he would have let the south keep slavery.

Again, Trump's dumb enough as it is without people putting words in his mouth.