Donald Trump stokes another row as he ‘misquotes’ Mahatma Gandhi

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump stoked another controversy after he posted a “quote” on social media by Mahatma Gandhi, drawing sharp reaction from the US media which questioned the authenticity of the words attributed to the Indian leader.

“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win — Mahatma Gandhi,” he wrote on soc-ial networking site Insta-gram Sunday as part of his effort to rally supporters.

The post included a picture of hordes of supporters rallying at a Trump campaign stop in Alabama. 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.