REUTERS INVESTIGATION REVEALS: Every living President is a descendent of slaveholders - except Donald Trump
Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were found to have slaveholding ancestors.
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Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were found to have slaveholding ancestors.
A new examination conducted by Reuters has found that of the six living US presidents, five are descendants of slaveholders. 45th President of the United States Donald Trump was found to not have slaveholder ancestors.
Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were found to have slaveholding ancestors. Obama's ancestors who enslaved others were through his mother's side.
Trump’s family immigrated to the US after the abolition of slavery, with his grandfather moving to the US from Germany in 1885, Reuters reported.
Census records viewed by Reuters showed that Biden’s great-great-great grandfather "enslaved a 14-year-old" in 1850. Politico found that another 3rd great grandfather, Jesse Robinett, enslaved people in Maryland’s Allegany County, according to an 1800 census.
The examination also found that Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, 11 governors, and 100 legislators from the 117th Congress are descendants of slaveholders.
Lawmakers who descended from slaves include Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, and James Lankford, as well as Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeanne Shaheen, and Maggie Hassan.
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