“Harry Potter’ author J.K. Rowling specializes in fiction. And her talent for story-telling also applies to politics.
Assuming that not a single one of her 11 million followers on Twitter would fact check her, she posted a video purporting to show a wheelchair-bound child attempting to touch Trump, who was then ignored by The Donald.
She’s since deleted her thread of tweets (which we previously reported on), but you can still read them all in the hyperlink, and the selectively edited video she shared versus what actually happened below, side by side.
What Liberals Are Sharing vs. What Actually Happened
What Liberals Are Sharing vs. What Actually Happened
Posted by Milo Yiannopoulos on Saturday, July 29, 2017
She’s since been called out by everyone, left, right, and center, for peddling the deceptive clip, but it took four days until she apologized. By then, millions of people had seen her tweets (which had been retweeted and favorited hundreds of thousands of times). It wasn’t even until Politifact awarded her a “Pants on Fire” rating that she bothered to apologize.
And she did apologize…. kind of.
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
Well that was a nice apology to everyone except Donald Trump. Even the New York Times called her out for this half-assed apology, in what can only be described as peak Trump Derangement Syndrome.
There’s a problem with people adhering to “alternative facts,” but it isn’t coming from our side. It’s coming from the liberal likes of J.K. Rowling who play fast and loose with the facts in order to disparage our president.
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