Trump requests toppled Confederate statue in DC be restored – report

President asks to put back up statue of Brigadier Gen Albert Pike, a senior figure in the South’s military forces, NBC reportsDonald Trump has personally requested that a statue of a Confederate general be put back up after protesters in Washington tore the monument down, according to NBC News.The networked reported that the US president had called interior secretary David Bernhardt and asked the Park Service to restore the fallen monument to Albert Pike, a senior figure in the slave-holdi