J.K. Rowling Takes Down Tweets Slamming Trump Over a Misleading Video, Apologizes
J.K. Rowling has apologized for her tweets slamming President Trump over a deceptively edited video a few days ago.
The video appearing to show the President ignoring a boy in a wheelchair went viral, but then it turned out that Trump did interact with him and didn’t ignore him.
Rowling received criticism over the weekend for not only spreading the misleading video, but for not taking her tweets down:
PolitiFact rated her tweets Pants on Fire today.
This afternoon she apologized on Twitter––to the boy and his family, not to Trump––and said she’s taking down the initial tweets:
Re: my tweets about the small boy in a wheelchair whose proferred hand the president appeared to ignore in press footage, multiple /1
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 31, 2017
sources have informed me that that was not a full or accurate representation of their interaction. I very clearly projected my own /2
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 31, 2017
sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored onto the images I saw and if that caused any distress /3
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 31, 2017
to that boy or his family, I apologise unreservedly. These tweets will remain, but I will delete the previous ones on the subject. /4x
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 31, 2017
As of this posting, Rowling has taken down most of the tweets from her earlier tweetstorm, save for this one:
That man occupies the most powerful office in the free world and his daily outrages against civilised norms are having a corrosive effect /3
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
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