Maine Republican Apologizes for Facebook Post Linking Obama to ISIS

Earlier this month, State Senator Michael Willette (R-ME) posted a meme on his Facebook page suggesting President Barack Obama was related to members of ISIS along with this statement: “I’ve been very good over the last year and a half about not posting things about Obama, but this one was too good to pass up. I promise this will be the last one for some time.”

Nine days later, Willette has issued an apology — not necessarily for the sentiment of the post but for sharing it with his friends and followers.

“I apologize for posting this on Facebook,” he said in a statement to the Portland Press Herald. “Like too many people these days, I fell into the trap of posting something first and then thinking later. It was an error in judgment.”

Willette has since deleted the Facebook post, but it has been preserved for posterity in the tweet below:

Maine Republican state senator posts meme saying Obama’s family has ties to ISIS. http://t.co/JrgPXeGscF #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/CRqYRzSqlk

— Paul Koenig (@Paul_Koenig) March 9, 2015

[h/t Politico]
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