Trump to restore Confederate memorial & drop slavery context

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The Trump administration plans to reinstall Arlington National Cemetery’s Confederate Memorial, defying a congressionally mandated commission, while removing language explaining how the monument romanticizes the Confederacy and sanitizes slavery. CNN's Jake Tapper reports. This story was first reported by The Washington Post.

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