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Posted On: 01/09/2024 3:43:39 PM
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Ulysses S. Grant on the 2024 election ...
Prescient fellow, huh?
6. A normal fact check - "Correct Attribution"
Mon Jan 8, 2024, 07:57 PM
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/grant-next-civil-war/
Claim:
U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant predicted that the next civil war would be "between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other."
Rating: Correct Attribution
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On Jan. 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters seeking to prevent certification of Joe Biden's victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential election. One of the many news reports that followed in the aftermath of that event noted the existence of "far-right talk of a coming civil war" among the Capitol rioters, who had been motivated by false claims propagated by Trump that the election had been "stolen" and "rigged."
In that climate, social media users began circulating a purported quotation from Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding General of the U.S. Army during the American Civil War, and 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
According to that quotation, Grant once predicted that "if we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence," that war would not be waged between regional factions, but "between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other"
Prescient fellow, huh?
6. A normal fact check - "Correct Attribution"
Mon Jan 8, 2024, 07:57 PM
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/grant-next-civil-war/
Claim:
U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant predicted that the next civil war would be "between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other."
Rating: Correct Attribution
About this rating
On Jan. 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters seeking to prevent certification of Joe Biden's victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential election. One of the many news reports that followed in the aftermath of that event noted the existence of "far-right talk of a coming civil war" among the Capitol rioters, who had been motivated by false claims propagated by Trump that the election had been "stolen" and "rigged."
In that climate, social media users began circulating a purported quotation from Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding General of the U.S. Army during the American Civil War, and 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
According to that quotation, Grant once predicted that "if we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence," that war would not be waged between regional factions, but "between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other"
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