Josh Hawley tweets fake Founding Father quote claiming US was founded on Christianity

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Senator Josh Hawley drew criticism from historians and teachers of US government over the July 4 holiday after he posted a tweet incorrectly ascribed to Patrick Henry which asserted that America was founded as a specifically Christian nation. Aside from the fact that the Constitution explicitly lays out that America will never have an official state religion, Mr Hawley’s message falsely attributed a quote from a biography of Henry, one of America’s Founding Fathers, to the man himself. It also drew in Mr Hawley’s longtime critics on the left, who despise the senator for his now-infamous show of support to crowds in the US Capitol just hours before those same crowds would turn into a riot and attack the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021.