Left-wing historian likens UFC White House event to lynchings era

Former CNN anchor-turned-YouTuber Jim Acosta hosted historian Heather Cox Richardson as she suggested that the same ideas that energized the UFC White House event motivated the lynchings of the 19th century. She began by condemning the use of an honor guard at the Lincoln Memorial to present the fighters , suggesting, "I think Trump is deliberately perverting those things that Americans hold dear." "He forced them to stand on those steps in honor of the UFC fighters coming down," Richardson said