Josh Hawley demolished by hometown newspaper for tweeting fake founding father quote
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Sen. Josh Haley (R-MO) was bashed by his home state newspaper after an Independence Day Twitter post that promoted . Hawley sang the praises of what he said was abolitionist Patrick Henry's words: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ," Hawley quoted. In fact, Henry did not say it. The quote was in a 1956 article from The Virginian, an anti-Semitic and white nationalist magazine, Wednesday,...
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