Ivanka Trump has found herself on the receiving end of ridicule after she appeared to share a fake quote on impeachment which she attributed to the 19 century political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville.
On Thursday evening, the president's daughter shared a tweet which appeared to condemn the ongoing impeachment hearings against her father and the alleged 'quid-pro-quo' he offered to the Ukrainian president in return for information about Joe Biden.
In the quote that Ivanka shared it said:
A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.
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Ivanka then claimed that de Tocqueville said these words in 1835 but a few folks on Twitter soon noticed that something wasn't quite right about this quote.
The quote actually came from a book written by John Innes Clark Hare in 1889, where de Tocqueville's words, which were about the unsuccessful impeachment of Andrew Johnson, were summarised by Hare.
Hare actually wrote:
It was long since remarked by de Tocqueville that a decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.
Ivanka, who still hasn't deleted the tweet, as since been widely mocked for misquoting de Tocqueville, with some giving her a brief history lesson in US democracy.
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Others used the tweet to reshare some of her father's most infamous quotes.
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If she had really done some revision she would have learnt that de Tocqueville wouldn't have been a big fan of Donald Trump, as some Twitter folks pointed out to her.
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HT Newsweek
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