Hegseth puts up paining of Robert E. Lee with a slave in it, at the Pentagon.

The 20' tall portrait was restored to West Point by Hegseth and to quote him: “never should have been taken down by woke lemmings.”

The 20-foot-tall painting, which hung at the United States Military Academy for 70 years, was taken down in response to a 2020 law that stripped the names of Confederate leaders from military bases.

That legislation also created a commission to come up with new base names. In 2022, the commission ordered West Point to take down all displays that “commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy.” A few weeks later, the portrait of General Lee with his slave in the background was placed in storage.

It was not clear how West Point could return General Lee’s portrait to the library without violating the law.

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