Fake News: Washington Post Claims Thomas Jefferson Held White House Iftar Dinner

BREITBART ^ | 06/25/2017 | Warner Todd Huston

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The establishment media became upset this weekend after President Donald Trump canceled the “White House Muslim Iftar Dinner tradition started by Thomas Jefferson.” But the media is wrong in every respect. Thomas Jefferson never held any Iftar dinner and only three out of 45 presidents ever hosted one, so there is no such “tradition” to cancel.

Amy B. Wang of the Washington Post led the pack with this nonsense that Thomas Jefferson held the “first Iftar dinner” with a June 24 piece entitled, “Trump just ended a long tradition of celebrating Ramadan at the White House.”

The often-used claim that Thomas Jefferson held the first Iftar dinner at the White House was trotted out by the Post’s Wang. She recounted the time when the diplomatic envoy from the Bey of Tunis, Sidi Soliman Melli Melli, visited Washington during Ramadan in 1805.

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Exposing more fake news of the Lamestream Media.

[Slyfox]

John Podesta works at WaPo now, no doubt to manage all the fakenews.

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Well, he’s good at it. Only problem for them is they can be fact checked a lot easier now and exposed faster for the fake news they publish. I would think they’d be embarrassed to keep doing it, but I don’t think like them, thank God.

[2banana]

By even better logic - Jefferson started America’s FIRST war...

Against muslim Barbary pirates who were enslaving American sailors.

“the shores of Tripoli...” (Marine Corp Hymn)

So let’s keep that tradition alive too.

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Yes...let’s!

[arthurus]

If Jeff did have an Iftar he was #3 and the next to do it was #42. That would hardly illustrate a "tradition," certainly not a long one. If Jefferson can held to have started a tradition then on could also hold that he started another related tradition, one of hunting down jihadis and blowing up them and their cities.

[laplata]

Jefferson despised Muslims.

[shibumi]

Warner Todd Huston -

Certified hater of FreeRepublic

And author of Breitbart's most embarrassing moment.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

No Jefferson did not. Wow, these guys will say and do ANYTHING to give the perception of acceptance of islam. Nothing is so far from the truth. Who is funding this propaganda? That person or entity needs to be found, prosecuted and executed for treason.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s part of the talking point that this dinner is an ages old tradition and not merely something that started with the Clinton White House.

[a fool in paradise]

Fakebook is also “trending” this fake news.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ping!

[Mark17]

I would think they’d be embarrassed to keep doing it, but I don’t think like them, thank God.

You are assuming those slime bags can think at all. You might be assuming too much. 😁

[Uncle Sam 911]

Fake news is used because it fits their agenda.

[Davy Crocket]

First President was Slick Willy, then Bush, then Zero

[tang-soo]

Isn’t that called, “Dessert?”

[jonrick46]

This is the Lame Stream Media on drug enhancements. If you believe in moral relativity, then even hallucinations are real.

[maine-iac7]

Thank God - and President Trump - that that ‘tradition’ is GONE.

[crz]

He was also co-host of a blog radio show with another from San Fran. A broad who was a liberal hack who managed to infiltrate this site as a conservative, IMO, and returned favors to her liberal overlords.

Friggan hippie..

[JudgemAll]

That would be the last to do so. I believe he opposed Adams who wanted to pay off pirates. Jefferson was appalled by the lack of respect for freedom islam displayed and saw that as a threat