{"id":1958190,"date":"2023-06-27T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/slavery-investigation-backfires-on-mainstream-media-every-living-president-except-trump-descended-from-slaveholders\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:50:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:50:57","slug":"slavery-investigation-backfires-on-mainstream-media-every-living-president-except-trump-descended-from-slaveholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/slavery-investigation-backfires-on-mainstream-media-every-living-president-except-trump-descended-from-slaveholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Media&#8217;s Slavery Investigation Backfires &#8211; All Presidents, Except Trump, Linked to Slaveholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fslavery-investigation-backfires-on-mainstream-media-every-living-president-except-trump-descended-from-slaveholders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1958190&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Slavery Investigation Backfires on Mainstream Media &#8211; Every Living President Except Trump Descended from Slaveholders<\/h2>\n<p>In another hilarious self-own by the legacy media, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-former-ag-barr-initiated-spying-program-on-americans-back-in-1992\/\" title=\"FLASHBACK: Former AG Barr Initiated Spying Program on Americans Back in 1992\">investigation found<\/a> that former President Donald Trump \u2014 whom the corporate press incessantly attacked as \u201cracist\u201d \u2014 is the only living U.S. president to not have slave-owning ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the past six living U.S. presidents \u2014 including the nation\u2019s first black president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-makes-secret-power-move-biden-continues-flounder-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> \u2014 are descended from slave owners, according to a bombshell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/usa-slavery-lawmakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> expos\u00e9 published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Legacy of Slavery<\/h3>\n<p>In researching the genealogies of America\u2019s political elite, a Reuters examination found that a fifth of the nation\u2019s congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At least 100 of the 536 members of the last sitting Congress descend from slaveholders, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Of that group, more than 25 percent of the Senate had at least one slaveholder in their family tree.<\/p>\n<p>Black and white lawmakers alike descended from slave owners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, President Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president \u2014 except Donald Trump \u2014 are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and \u2014 through his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-that-triggered-cancellation-of-dr-seuss-called-cat-in-the-hat-racist-horton-the-elephant-a-white-supremacist\/\" title=\"Study That Triggered Cancellation of Dr. Seuss Called Cat In The Hat Racist, Horton The Elephant A White Supremacist\">white mother\u2019<\/a>s side \u2014 Barack Obama,\u201d Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-appointed-judge-gives-special-counsel-smackdown-tries-trap-45\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump\u2019s<\/a> ancestors never <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-franklins-name-scrubbed-from-tacoma-city-park\/\" title=\"Ben Franklin\u2019s Name Scrubbed From Tacoma City Park\">owned slaves<\/a> because they immigrated to the United States in 1885 after slavery was abolished.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/slavery-investigation-backfires-on-mainstream-media-every-living-president-except-trump-descended-from-slaveholders\/\" title=\"Media's Slavery Investigation Backfires - All Presidents, Except Trump, Linked to Slaveholders\">great-great-great-grandfather owned<\/a> two slaves, while another great-great-great-grandfather enslaved a 14-year-old boy, according to a 2021 genealogical analysis published by <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/572125-biden-ancestors-owned-enslaved-people-genealogist-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, while the Reuters report singled out several Republican lawmakers over their family trees, its silence concerning the slave-owning lineage of Vice President Kamala Harris is deafening.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-ancestors-slave-owners-will-left-cancel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris\u2019 ancestors reportedly owned slaves<\/a> in Jamaica and not the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Some in the legacy media were probably gleefully hoping to uncover the dark, slave-owning lineage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democratic-lawmaker-arrested-allegedly-trump-supporters-car\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump\u2019s<\/a> ancestors, only to come up empty-handed in their latest race-baiting quest.<\/p>\n<p>Many Twitter users mocked Reuters, with some saying its \u201cawkward\u201d investigation \u201cbackfired.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Well that backfired on Reuters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AxzOXY5Rra\">https:\/\/t.co\/AxzOXY5Rra<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LygGueINBj\">pic.twitter.com\/LygGueINBj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePowersThatBe\/status\/1673676177431560192?\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reuters awkwardly found that Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president \u2013 except Donald Trump \u2013 are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and \u2013 through his white mother\u2019s side \u2013 Barack Obama.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UXTSgCvDcr\">https:\/\/t.co\/UXTSgCvDcr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cmk8DPixRy\">pic.twitter.com\/Cmk8DPixRy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zerohedge\/status\/1673672899704619011?\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is officially the dumbest story ever written \u2014 but it also proves that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> is the least racist politician in America <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kXma9N1rKD\">https:\/\/t.co\/kXma9N1rKD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlie Hurt (@CharlesHurt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlesHurt\/status\/1673707424170082307?\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren should pay reparations,\u201d one Twitter user suggested.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I think Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren should pay reparations.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that Trump and DeSantis aren\u2019t listed has having slaveholder ancestors.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LslglzB7J5\">https:\/\/t.co\/LslglzB7J5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IuhyngDGkb\">pic.twitter.com\/IuhyngDGkb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew @ Don\u2019t Walk, RUN! (@DontWalkRUN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DontWalkRUN\/status\/1673676136654446596?\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The destructive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/civil-rights-icon-calls-white-guilt-liberal-racism-insulting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white guilt<\/a> phenomenon festering today and the toxic elevation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">critical race theory<\/a> are premised on America\u2019s slavery past.<\/p>\n<p>If you listen to grievance-hustling leftists, you\u2019d get the misimpression that all Americans owned slaves during the slavery era.<\/p>\n<p>That is false. Most people in the Northern states did not own slaves, and in the South, only the rich could afford slaves.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, slavery existed on every continent for thousands of years before it came to America.<\/p>\n<p>Slavery is not an experience that is unique to black Americans. Every race was enslaved at some point.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThe number of whites who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that put together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Sowell on reparations: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wJCkiZtLri\">pic.twitter.com\/wJCkiZtLri<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThomasSowell\/status\/1270698452486361089?\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The race-hustling left must stop sowing division in a destructive campaign to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bud-light-sponsors-event-men-something-disturbing-children-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">divide the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With Americans being crushed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/white-house-post-graph-bragging-inflation-going-completely-blows-face\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soaring inflation<\/a> and the United States teetering on the brink of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/historian-predicted-fall-soviet-union-makes-startling-world-war-iii-remarks-already-begun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World War III<\/a>, there are for more pressing matters to resolve.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/slavery-investigation-backfires-mainstream-media-every-living-president-except-trump-descended-slaveholders\/\">Slavery Investigation Backfires on Mainstream Media &#8211; Every Living President Except Trump Descended from Slaveholders<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a comical twist, the legacy media&#8217;s latest investigation revealed that former President Donald Trump, often labeled as &#8220;racist,&#8221; is the sole living U.S. president without slave-owning ancestors. Surprisingly, five out of the last six living presidents, including Barack Obama, the first black president, have ancestral ties to slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":1958191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}