J.K. Rowling’s “row” with President Donald Trump has stooped to a new low. The Harry Potter author, who boasts 11.4 million Twitter followers, retweeted out a viral video of Trump appearing to ignore a little boy in a wheelchair at a recent event on Obamacare.
Unfortunately for Rowling and the more than 70,000 followers who retweeted her post, the video was actually selectively edited.
Rowling posted the video on Friday with a famous quote from Maya Angelou: “When people show you who they really are, believe them.” She then went on a warpath against Trump. Over the course of several tweets, she wrote:
“This monster of narcissism values only himself and his pale reflections,…The disabled, minorities, transgender people, the poor, women…(unless related to him by ties of blood, and therefore his creations) are treated with contempt, because they do not resemble Trump…That man occupies the most powerful office in the free world and his daily outrages against civilised norms are having a corrosive effect…How stunning, and how horrible, that Trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who only wanted to touch the President.”
As several fact-finders later pointed out, however, the full clip from the event shows the president kneeling down to speak with the child, showing him true compassion and respect. The Twitter user that originally posted the video, Ansel Herz, was sure to delete the video after many sites pointed out that it was doctored.
She’s doing great work! Not sure that clip is as bad as it seems though: https://t.co/ym1nnwahQ6
— Nick Borriello (@BorrielloNick) July 28, 2017
Rowling has been vocal in her disgust toward the Donald. She has called Trump more evil than Lord Voldemort (a Harry Potter reference), “a tiny, tiny, tiny, little man,” “an alarmist blowhard,” and other horrible things over the last two years.
Showing her own dark side, Rowling has yet to delete the now-broken link from her Twitter account and apologize for misleading her followers.
‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them.’ – Maya Angelou https://t.co/Op6HUrRo80
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
