The Trump administration attorney leading the White House review of the Smithsonian Institution’s programming said the museum has an “overemphasis on slavery.”
Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to the president, spoke to Fox News on Wednesday after the president blasted the Smithsonian on Truth Social for being “OUT OF CONTROL” for discussing “how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.”
Halligan appeared to go further than the president when asked by host John Roberts about museums reflecting America’s “checkered past.”
“The fact our country was involved in slavery is awful. No one thinks otherwise,” she said.
“But what I saw when I was going through the museum, personally, was an overemphasis on slavery, and I think there should be more of an overemphasis on how far we’ve come since slavery.”
