Trump tweets key GOP lawmaker has committed to not changing Confederate base names

President Trump said Friday a key Republican senator has committed to ensuring a requirement to rename Confederate-named military bases is stripped from the annual defense policy bill, even though the fate of that requirement is now in the hands of bipartisan negotiators.”I spoke to highly respected (Chairman) Senator @JimInhofe, who has informed me that he WILL NOT be changing the names of our great Military Bases and Forts, places from which…