President Trump is taking heat for questioning why the Civil War had to be fought and suggesting President Andrew Jackson could have mediated the dispute without bloodshed. "And he was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, 'There's no reason for this.'" "Had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War" @realDonaldTrump told @SalenaZito. Full intv at 2pE, Ch124 pic.twitter.com/d7PuRRm7Md — SiriusXMPolitics (@SXMPolitics) May 1, 2017He added, "People don't realize, you know, the Civil War … if you think about it, why? Longer: When Andrew Jackson died in 1845 (16 yrs before the Civil War began), he owned 150 men, women and children,” Clinton wrote.

Source: Fox News May 01, 2017 15:22 UTC