14 Disgusting Facts About President Thomas Jefferson’s Private Life
Maybe you’ll start liking Trump after reading this.
Sometimes, the aura of a person becomes more significant than the person. The associated beliefs attached to them become increasingly sensationalized, and eventually, the lines of truthfulness and lies are blurred out enough to give the person an entirely new outlook.
An outlook that hides their terrible acts and shows them off as only great people. Such was the case of one of the most influential, pivotal, yet equally problematic people that served as not only the President of the USA but was one of the lead authors of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson.
1. Tainted election campaigns propagated by Jefferson
In the quest for presidential power, Jefferson was one of the first people in America to resort to downright propagandistic schemes to drive out competition against John Adams. Calling Adams a ‘hideous hermaphroditical character,’ Jefferson made sure that such tactics stained the reputation of Adams and let him have the upper hand in the elections.
