Kaine said it was an "ad hominem attack on people trying to get at the roots of the effects of slavery" and "did not bear at all on the impeachment."
Sen. Tim Kaine was so taken aback when President Donald Trump's defense attorney Robert Ray criticized a New York Times series about the history of slavery during his presentation in the Senate impeachment trial that he later confronted Ray about the remarks.
Ray made the remarks during his argument that the articles of impeachment passed in the House against Trump on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress were illegitimate because they were not based on a violation of thelaw. Ray said the argument was an"ahistorical sleight of hand worthy only of The New York Times recent 1619 series," referring to an interactive project on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first African slaves in what would become the United States.
In December, The New Times Magazine published a letter from five historians who said the project contained factual errors. Two of those professors, James McPherson and Sean Wilentz, are from Princeton. In response, the magazine's editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein wrote,"we disagree with their claim that our project contains significant factual errors and is driven by ideology rather than historical understanding.
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