If orange was "smart" they'd keep their mouth shut about Pike.
Not sure how that would make him 'smart'. There is secret war going on at the top. If he is on one side, 'smart' get's thrown out. It then becomes 'duty'.
I believe orange was forced to defend Pike by the same people who are telling newz casters to brand Pike "a confederate".
Possibly yes. That just seems too obvious to me and I know how they work, however it is very possible. They might be trying to get Biden the Pedophile in, and the only way would be to make damn sure that everyone hated the Trumpeter.
Sad thing is the mainstream history of the civil war is bullshit for the most part. People have been trained to think it was about slavery. People don't look at what was really going on. People don't look at who the big players were in the transatlantic slave trade. People don't care about things like, at the height of slavery, less than 2% of the white population owned slaves...
Do you know who owned most of the slaves? And who the big players were in the slave trade? ....not the way more dominant 'white' slave trade, just the 'African' one.