CNN Just Published A Fake Quote From Abraham Lincoln (also misattribute quote to Ben Franklin)

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Happy #FourthOfJuly from CNN Politics!

Celebrate America and its freedoms this Independence Day. pic.twitter.com/x4XAdWEOl2

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 4, 2017

TheFederalist.com Update:

In the same Twitter thread, CNN also misattributed a quote to Benjamin Franklin that actually came from British writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, authors of Cato’s Letters  (Archive).