Josh Hawley got caught trying to deceive the public with a fake quote about the U.S. being a Christian nation. As stevebenen writes, the Missouri Republican's response to the flap made matters worse.
at Stanford, before getting a law degree from Yale — honored Independence Day by publishing a tweet that quoted Patrick Henry saying the United States was “founded ... on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” Henry, however, never said any such thing: Hawley was actually quotingthat ran in 1956 — more than a century and a half after the founding father’s death.
What’s more, I have no idea how the right defines “triggered” in the contemporary discourse, but a senator tried to deceive the public. Then he got caught. Now he seems to find it amusing that people he disapproves of noticed his deception — which makes Hawley less of a senator and more of an online troll.
This could go on for a while, and though I’m certain that my list of quotes would prevail — the historical record is, after all, on my side — the fact remains that the entire exercise is unnecessary.
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