Speaker Paul Ryan apparently has a penchant for the work of the notorious “historian” and Christian nationalist David Barton. Once again illustrating just how rotten Ryan’s judgment can be.
Barton has long been one of the gaudy grifters of the right wing. His much-debunked 2012 book on Thomas Jefferson—ironically titled The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson—was so filled with inaccuracies that its Christian publisher had to remove it from its catalog after various historians, including some Christian conservatives, picked it apart. Barton is such a liar that he claimed Simon & Schuster had selected the withdrawn book and would publish it on its own. Four years later and it has no such plans....
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