Author J.K. Rowling issued an apology on Twitter Monday after pushing a false claim for three days that President Donald Trump avoided a boy in a wheelchair, as unedited video shows the president shaking the boy’s hand.
Trump met with a group of “victims of Obamacare” July 24 shortly before giving a press conference about health care reform. The invitees stood on the stage behind Trump as he gave his speech.
The “Harry Potter” author cited a conveniently edited video on Twitter, showing Trump taking the stage and avoiding shaking the hand of a young boy in a wheelchair.
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
Rowling raged on Twitter last week that Trump “pretends not to see” the child, “as though frightened he might catch his condition.” However, the unedited version of the clip later emerged, clearly showing Trump crouching down and greeting the boy.
WATCH:
Here is the BEGINNING of the clip of Trump, according to @jk_rowling, “ignoring” a kid in a wheelchair. FAKE NEWS!pic.twitter.com/q5Yy8z5Pik
— Democrats for Trump (@YoungDems4Trump) July 28, 2017
Rowling sent her original tweets July 28, later apologizing Monday.
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