24,000 RETWEETS AND COUNTING: John Brennan uses bogus Abe Lincoln quote to bash Congress over Peter Strzok hearing

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Former CIA director John Brennan has over 24,000 retweets and over 70,000 likes on this Abraham Lincoln quote he tied to the House hearing for disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok this week:

Watching the spectacle of the House “hearing” with Peter Strzok today, I was reminded of the words of Abraham Lincoln:

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) July 13, 2018

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Except ………… Lincoln never said this as written:

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1017923440416878592

But Lincoln did say something similar in what’s known as the Lyceum Address from 1838:

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.

You know, it might be a problem when one of the nation’s top intelligence experts can’t determine what’s real and what’s not on the internet, which leads to thousands of other people believing it’s true.

And because this is 2018 and there’s a tweet for everything, yes, President Trump has used this same bogus quote himself:

24,000 RETWEETS AND COUNTING: John Brennan uses bogus Abe Lincoln quote to bash Congress over Peter Strzok hearing

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