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@asharock Lara's paraphrase accurately summarized Lincoln's meaning. Why do Democrats have so much trouble with the truth?
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@asharock Lara twitterized the Lincoln quote. She paraphrased 148 words in just 22.

It was an accurate summary of Lincoln's meaning.

@asharock Democrats have a fit about Lara Trump's accurate paraphrase of Lincoln, but they have no problem with whoppers by Biden like this:

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@asharock @asharock, you / @politifact said what Lara Trump said was untrue, but it wasn't. You are wrong. In English, the word "said" can refer to either an exact quote, or an inexact one, such as a translation or paraphrase.

@asharock @PolitiFact In written prose, the use or lack of quotation marks can distinguish between those cases: quote marks are customarily used with exact quotes and translations, but not with paraphrases.

But quote marks are unspoken, so in spoken English it can be unclear.

@asharock @PolitiFact Lara paraphrased, rather than quoted, Lincoln. For clarity, she could have (& perhaps should have) said:
“Abraham Lincoln once famously said 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩...”

or, better yet:
"Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, ..."

But what she said was not wrong, and it certainly wasn't "mostly false."

@asharock @PolitiFact It was an accurate paraphrase.

Your rating of "mostly false" reflects your bias and 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 of the English language, not an error or falsehood by Lara Trump.

Please correct your erroneous "fact check," and issue an apology to Lara Trump.

@asharock @PolitiFact @asharock (Aaron Sharockman), please correct your erroneous "fact check," and issue an apology to Lara Trump.