Trump rebuts NY Times '1619 Project' with '1776 Report' urging schools to reject 'ideological poison'

The Trump-backed panel released a 45-page report on the state of American education in what the White House described as a "rebuttal" to "reckless" historical accounts of the country's founding.

"Neither America nor any other nation has perfectly lived up to the universal truths of equality, liberty, justice and government by consent," the report says. "But no nation before America ever dared state those truths as the formal basis for its politics, and none has strived harder, or done more, to achieve them." Trump first announced plans to form the commission last September after protestors during nationwide protests against racism toppled statues depicting Founding Fathers who had owned slaves. At the time, the president tweeted that he would "stop the radical indoctrination of our students." In one passage, the 1776 Commission argued that America's founding fathers should not be seen as hypocrites for espousing freedom despite the existence of slavery in the country.