Lara Trump Uses Fake Abraham Lincoln Quote During Speech at Republican National Convention

[Lochloosa]

Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, misused an adage that's been wrongfully attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

On Wednesday, Lara, 37, spoke at the Republican National Convention, addressing supporters with a speech that defended the first family's character and touted the president's professional relationships with women. During the speech, however, she used a viral Lincoln quote that historians have specified the 16th president never said.

"Abraham Lincoln once famously said: 'America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves,'" Lara claimed in her speech. "While those words were spoken over 150 years ago, never have they been more relevant."

The made-up quote circulated social media last summer in a meme as a way to attack the "Squad" of Democrats: Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib. Trump, 74, also attributed the quote to Lincoln in an April 2015










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[Siwsan]

1. Well, her "reality" is pretty much all fake, so.......

[In It to Win It]

2. ...and those Trump Humpers will never know

[sl8]

3. Politifact rated it as "Mostly False" last year, provided actual quote

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/26/viral-image/abraham-lincoln-quote-fake-its-close-something-he-/

By Ciara O'Rourke
July 26, 2019

This Abraham Lincoln quote is fake but it’s close to something he actually said

As a recent Facebook post wonders whether "radical Democrats" are destroying America, it leans on what would seem to be a prescient quote from Abraham Lincoln.

"Lincoln knew best," the July 22 post says before attributing this statement to the former president: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within."

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Christian McWhirter, a Lincoln historian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, told PolitiFact, "it is not accurate in that Lincoln never spoke or wrote it, but it is not totally fabricated either." It’s a corruption of something Lincoln said in one of his first major speeches, McWhirter said.

On Jan. 27, 1838, Lincoln spoke before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, about "the perpetuation of our political institutions." During that address, he said: "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

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[Midnightwalk]

4. I'm not sure what to say

Anyone can find a quote. Most people could manage to find a real one. What does the quote have to do with what you espousing?

Republicans are no more the party of Lincoln than their christians are followers of Christ.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. At least she didn't use the one about Lincoln warning us not to

believe everything we read on the internet.....