Fake Jefferson on Liars
Have you seen that Jefferson quote about liars in government? Turns out, the only people lying are those spreading the quote on the internet.
“The government will one day be corrupt and filled with liars, and the people will flock to the one that tells the truth,” Ryan Fournier, the chairman of Students for Trump, tweeted back in 2017.
Trump supporters became fond of this quote, supposedly showing Jefferson had some kind of psychic prediction that a figure like Trump would emerge. As Politifact points out, there’s absolutely no evidence the quote was ever uttered by Jefferson, but that hasn’t stopped it from spreading like wildfire on Facebook. It’s not clear who originally said it, or if anyone of consequence ever did.
