Kayleigh McEnany attacked liberals as ‘haters” Tuesday morning, claiming that they get facts wrong as she falsely claimed the founding fathers “were against slavery.”
“The haters never take a day off from hating, that’s clear, and they never take a day off from getting the facts wrong,” said the Fox News pundit and former Trump White House press secretary known for her history of false statements and lies.
“We know most of our forefathers, all of our main founding fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it,” she said Tuesday on Fox News, directing viewers to the Heritage Foundation’s website.
“They’re so wrong on so much, where to begin,” she claims in the video below.
As Media Matters for America News Director John Whitehouse notes below, an article at USA Today profiles “the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence.”
“Some of the signers are world famous – among them Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams – and some are obscure,” the USA Today piece explains. “The majority owned slaves – 41 of the 56, according to one study – though there were also ardent abolitionists among their number.”
For those who want to take a very specific look at McEnany’s claim that “all of our main founding fathers were against slavery,” that too is false. Anthony Iaccarino, Assistant Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College in Encyclopedia Britannica lists 21 of the most prominent Founding Fathers, finding that just seven of those were non-slaveholders.
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