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<p>On Monday afternoon, J.K. Rowling apologized for her criticism of a <a href="https://www.someecards.com/topic/donald-trump/">Donald Trump</a> video that appeared to show the president ignoring the outstretched hand of a boy in a wheelchair. That video was revealed to be doctored. In fact, Trump had knelt down to speak to the three-year-old.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Re: my tweets about the small boy in a wheelchair whose proferred hand the president appeared to ignore in press footage, multiple /1</p>&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/892128355117563906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">sources have informed me that that was not a full or accurate representation of their interaction. I very clearly projected my own /2</p>&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/892128824854532102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored onto the images I saw and if that caused any distress /3</p>&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/892129163460694018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">to that boy or his family, I apologise unreservedly. These tweets will remain, but I will delete the previous ones on the subject. /4x</p>&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/892129536363692032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;Sources have informed me that that was not a full or accurate representation of their interaction,&quot; wrote Rowling in apology. &quot;I very clearly projected my own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored...&quot;</p><p>Her mea culpa comes after Piers Morgan attacked her for her rant, posting what appeared to be a Facebook status from the little boys&#39; mother: &quot;Trump didn&#39;t snub my son.&quot;</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As for your suggestion President Trump should have shaken the boy&#39;s hand in the 2nd clip, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChelseaClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChelseaClinton</a> - Monty&#39;s mum says this: <a href="https://t.co/Nrg9Hq48X5">pic.twitter.com/Nrg9Hq48X5</a></p>&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/891690802824572929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Although the original video that duped Rowling has been deleted, Politifact reports that the version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170731141929/https:/twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/890997400290111489">she retweeted</a> was similar to the following:</p><oembed>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&amp;v=youS1cWcWDI</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;Trump imitated a disabled reporter,&quot; Rowling wrote in a now-deleted message. &quot;Now he pretends not to see a child in a wheelchair, as though frightened he might catch his condition.&quot;</p><p>Via <a href="http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jul/31/jk-rowling/jk-rowling-falsely-accuses-trump-not-shaking-disab/" target="_blank">Politifact</a>, here&#39;s the rest of her comments on the apparently fake video:</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Web Archive" data-attribution-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20170731141929/https:/twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/890997400290111489" height="677" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/rowlingpost-ueHeoK.jpg" width="700" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170731141929/https:/twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/890997400290111489">Web Archive</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The full, unedited video of the exchange prompted Rowling&#39;s apology. At a White House press conference designed to trash Obamacare, Trump had invited three-year-old Monty Weer and his family to showcase the failures of the legislation.</p><p>Although Marjorie Weer, the boy&#39;s mother, <a href="http://www.postandcourier.com/politics/for-one-south-carolina-family-the-health-care-debate-is/article_88088a54-7389-11e7-b3e0-c3edcafd4b49.html" target="_blank">has admitted that Obamacare helped her son</a>, that doesn&#39;t mean that Trump snubbed him.</p><p>At timestamp 2:10:</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe oembed-full-width"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g0u34c9orMc?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Note that Rowling did not apologize to Trump himself, and probably never will.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="someecards-embed" id="someecards-embed-3736301" data-id="3736301" data-type="post" data-url="https://napi.someecards.com/embed/post/jk-rowling-twitter/"><a href="https://www.someecards.com/entertainment/celebrities/jk-rowling-twitter/" target="_blank"> 33 times J.K. Rowling was a fantastic beast on Twitter. </a></blockquote><script async src="//cdn.someecards.com/assets/embed/embed-v1.07.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

J.K. Rowling apologizes after savaging fake video of Trump ignoring boy in a wheelchair.

On Monday afternoon, J.K. Rowling apologized for her criticism of a Donald Trump video that appeared to show the president ignoring the outstretched hand of a boy in a wheelchair. That video was revealed to be doctored. In fact, Trump had knelt down to speak to the three-year-old.Re: my tweets about the small boy in a wheelchair whose proferred hand the president appeared to ignore in press footage, multiple /1&mdash; 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&mdash; 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&mdash; 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&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 31, 2017 &quot;Sources have informed me that that was not a full or accurate representation of their interaction,&quot; wrote Rowling in apology. &quot;I very clearly projected my own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored...&quot;Her mea culpa comes after Piers Morgan attacked her for her rant, posting what appeared to be a Facebook status from the little boys&#39; mother: &quot;Trump didn&#39;t snub my son.&quot;As for your suggestion President Trump should have shaken the boy&#39;s hand in the 2nd clip, @ChelseaClinton - Monty&#39;s mum says this: pic.twitter.com/Nrg9Hq48X5&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 30, 2017 Although the original video that duped Rowling has been deleted, Politifact reports that the version she retweeted was similar to the following:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&amp;v=youS1cWcWDI&quot;Trump imitated a disabled reporter,&quot; Rowling wrote in a now-deleted message. &quot;Now he pretends not to see a child in a wheelchair, as though frightened he might catch his condition.&quot;Via Politifact, here&#39;s the rest of her comments on the apparently fake video:Web ArchiveThe full, unedited video of the exchange prompted Rowling&#39;s apology. At a White House press conference designed to trash Obamacare, Trump had invited three-year-old Monty Weer and his family to showcase the failures of the legislation.Although Marjorie Weer, the boy&#39;s mother, has admitted that Obamacare helped her son, that doesn&#39;t mean that Trump snubbed him.At timestamp 2:10:Note that Rowling did not apologize to Trump himself, and probably never will. 33 times J.K. Rowling was a fantastic beast on Twitter. 

J.K. Rowling apologized for her criticism of a fake Donald Trump video that showed the president ignoring the outstretched hand of a boy in a wheelchair.