Trump `misquotes` Gandhi |
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump posted a quote on Instagram attributing it to Mahatma Gandhi, but the American media said there is no evidence that the Indian leader had ever used these words. Trump wrote :"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - Mahatma Gandhi." The Instagram post included a picture of hordes of supporters rallying at a Trump campaign stop in Alabama.Soon, the anti-Trump lobby was up in flames on the social media.The Hill, a top US political website, said, "There`s no record that Gandhi ever used the phrase, which has been widely attributed to him."The quotation appears to be similar to words used in a 1918 trade union address by socialist leader Nicholas Klein, it said.Trump sought to quote Gandhi a day after he was criticised for re-tweeting Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini .Several popular websites have attributed this quote — First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - to Mahatma Gandhi.According to Wikiquotes, this is the quote which is often misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi.
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