US elites' slaveholder links abound

More than 100 US leaders — including President Joe Biden and every living former US president except Donald Trump, along with Supreme Court judges, members of the last sitting Congress and governors — have a slaveholding ancestor, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

The investigation examining the ancestral history of US lawmakers and presidents found that Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — through his white mother's side, two of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices — Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch — also have direct ancestors who enslaved black people.

Trump's ancestors arrived in the United States after slavery had been abolished.