J.K. Rowling Offers Apology for Anti-Trump Tweets
J.K. Rowling apologizes for remarks concerning the President.
FOX’s Michelle Pollino reports:
J.K. Rowling has apologized for tweets she posted concerning the President and a disabled boy. Rowling always quick to criticize the President called Mr. Trump “horrible” after seeing footage of the President appearing to ignore the child’s outstretched hand during a White House event last week.
However, the boys mom corrected the ‘Harry Potter’ author on Facebook, writing, “the President didn’t snub her son and the boy wasn’t even trying to shake Mr. Trump’s hand.”
Rowling wrote that she apologize unreservedly. And she very clearly projected her own “sensitivities around the issue” onto the images that she saw. Rowling deleted her original tweets.
Michelle Pollino, FOX News.
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
