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July 13, 2016

David McCullough on Trump: "Vulgar, Mean-Spirited, Unhinged"
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Meanwhile, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Mc Cullough and
award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns have teamed up to launch the group
Historians on Donald Trump. Their Facebook page includes a series of
prominent historians speaking about the dangers of a Trump presidency.

David Mc Cullough: "So much that Donald Trump spouts is so vulgar and so
far from the truth and mean-spirited. It is on that question of
character especially that he does not measure up. He is unwise. He is
plainly unprepared, unqualified and, it often seems, unhinged. How can
we possibly put our future in the hands of such a man?"

That's historian David Mc Cullough, speaking about Donald Trump. The
two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for the biographies "Truman" and "John
Adams" has historically refused to comment on contemporary election
cycles, saying his specialty is "dead politicians." Other historians
involved in the group include Ron Chernow, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning
biography "Hamilton" served as inspiration for the hit musical, and
Vicki Lynn Ruiz, former president of the American Historical
Association.


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