President Trump Pardons American Suffragist Susan B. Anthony on 100th Anniversary of 19th Amendment

Tré Goins-Phillips : Aug 18, 2020
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"She was never pardoned. Did you know that? She was never pardoned. What took so long?" -President Donald Trump

[Faithwire.com] President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order pardoning Susan B. Anthony, the famed women's suffrage leader arrested in 1872 for attempting to vote, which was, at the time, an illegal act for a female and carried with it a $100 fine. (Screengrab image: via Wikipedia)

"She was never pardoned," said the president. "Did you know that? She was never pardoned. What took so long?"

Anthony was tried and ultimately found guilty by an all-male jury for daring to cast a vote in the 1872 presidential election between incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant and Liberal Republican Horace Greeley. (Screengrab image of photo by: Anna Moneymaker-UPI/Pool)

Trump's decision to pardon the iconic suffragist comes on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which was ratified in August 1920 and guaranteed no citizen would be barred from voting based on the account of sex... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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