Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., came under fire online Tuesday evening after he posted an Independence Day tweet that included a false claim and a false quote. 

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New York

United States

Josh Hawley Rings in July 4 with Fake Quote

Missouri senator’s tweet sees community note attached noting false attribution

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The Independent

Evgeny Lebedev

London

Greater London

England

United Kingdom

Josh Hawley tweets fake Founding Father quote claiming US was founded on Christianity

Sen. Josh Haley (R-MO) was bashed by his home state newspaper after an Independence Day Twitter post that promoted a fake Founding Father quote that promotes Christian nationalism.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 q…

Raw Story

John K. Byrne

Michael Rogers (publisher)

Josh Hawley demolished by hometown newspaper for tweeting fake founding father quote

The Missouri senator gets called out on Twitter over a quote he falsely attributed to Patrick Henry.

HuffPost

Roberts family

Verizon Communications

Josh Hawley Busted After Using Fake Founding Father Quote To Push Religious Agenda

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) “took to Twitter to celebrate that great American patriot Patrick Henry,” the Kansas City Star reports. Wrote Hawley: “Patrick Henry: ‘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. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship her…

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Ever since the Religious Right achieved prominence in the Republican Party in the early 1980s —much to the dismay of the late conservative Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) — far-right Christian fundamentalists and white evangelicals have been claiming that the United States is a "Christian nation." But there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that gives Christianity priority over any other religion. The Constitution's 1st Amendment states, "Con…

Alternet

Washington

District of Columbia

A 'sloppy error': Analyst slams 'theocratic' Josh Hawley for using fake historical quote

Josh Hawley pushing a fake historical quote was cringe-worthy, but more important was the theocratic point he was eager to make — on the 4th of July.

MSNBC

Why Josh Hawley’s fake historical quote matters

Hawley attributed a magazine quote from 1956 to one of the Founding Fathers.

Salon

Chris Richmond (entrepreneur)

San Francisco

San Francisco County

California

"Patrick Henry never said this": Josh Hawley mocked for fake quote

The senator from Missouri celebrated the Fourth of July by falsely claiming the United States was founded “on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Vanity Fair

Advance Publications

Of Course Josh Hawley Tweeted a Fake Quote to Push Religious Propaganda

The Stanford honors history major and culture warrior extraordinaire prefers to get a little attention instead of celebrating our nation’s independence together.

Kansas City Star

McClatchy

Kansas City

Jackson County

Missouri

Josh Hawley rings in July 4 with fake quote with antisemitic, white nationalist roots

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) came under fire on the Fourth of July for tweeting a false historical quote pushing components of Christian Nationalism ideology and falsely attributing it to a founding father.

Talking Points Memo

Josh Marshall

Hawley Slammed For Using Fake Founding Father Quote To Push Christian Nationalism On July 4

"Patrick Henry never said this": Josh Hawley mocked for fake quote

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