Harry Potter Author Apologizes for Misplaced Trump Criticism

Harry Potter series author J.K. Rowling apologized Monday for tweets that falsely accused President Donald Trump of ignoring a handicapped child at a White House event.

Last Friday, Rep. Pramila Jayapal's deputy communications director, Ansel Herz. tweeted out a misleading video – since deleted – that appeared to show the president ignoring the child in a wheelchair, The Washington Free Beacon reported.

But the full video showed Trump specifically sought out the child.

Rowling retweeted Herz's post, commenting: "when someone shows you who they are, believe them," a quote from Maya Angelou, the Free Beacon reported.

On Monday, she blasted out a four-tweet mea culpa.

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

She did not apologize to Trump.

Rowling also said she had deleted almost all of her original tweets shaming the president.

PolitiFact gave her original tweets a "pants on fire" rating.

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