Rosie O’Donnell is consuming her phrases after she falsely claimed that the transgender Minneapolis Catholic college shooter was a MAGA supporter in a hate-fueled social media rant final week.
The previous discuss present host and fierce Trump critic, 63, who resides in Eire after fleeing the US over the commander in chief’s second time period in workplace, dangerously advised that shooter Robin Westman — who killed two youngsters and injured 18 parishioners — was a “Republican, MAGA particular person, white supremacist” in a TikTok rant.
After realizing that her conspiracy-laden tirade on social media was factually incorrect, O’Donnell took to social media to subject a groveling apology.
“I do know a number of you have been very upset concerning the video I made earlier than I went away for a couple of days,” she stated in a TikTok video shared Sunday. “You might be proper and I didn’t do my due diligence earlier than I made that emotional assertion.”
“I stated issues concerning the shooter that have been incorrect,” O’Donnell continued. “I assumed, like most shooters, they adopted a typical MO and had customary emotions of you realize, NRA-loving sort of gun folks.”
“The reality is, I tousled and whenever you mess up, you fess up. I’m sorry, that is my apology video and I hope it’s sufficient.”
O’Donnell’s claims have been instantly proved false after it emerged that the 23-year-old shooter in actual fact had scribbled “Kill Donald Trump” on one among his gun magazines.
Nonetheless, it didn’t cease the “League of Their Personal” star from doubling down.
“Noticed concerning the Minnesota taking pictures, and it introduced me proper again to Columbine in 1999 after I simply couldn’t get it by means of my head that college students in American have been taking pictures one another in faculties,” she falsely asserted on TikTok.
“This was a church inside a Catholic college. And what have you learnt? This was a white man, Republican, MAGA particular person, what have you learnt? White supremacist.”
“The NRA is a terrorist group. They usually have been for a few years,” she stated, earlier than blasting America for valuing weapons over children.
“When is sufficient, sufficient America? Haven’t you had sufficient of Donald Trump? The Heritage Basis? All their bulls–t? He’s their puppet … however guess what? It’s coming to an finish.”
Regardless of her claims, Westman was a self-identified transgender lady who had a nihilistic viewpoint and an obsession with previous mass shooters.
The shooter additionally left behind a ultimate video message and handwritten manifesto pages declaring he had been “plotting for therefore lengthy” and sneering “f–ok these children” — in addition to statements of despair over gender identification.
Regulation enforcement, fact-checkers and nationwide media have all discovered no hyperlinks to the Republican Social gathering, MAGA motion or white supremacist organizations.
Here is what we all know concerning the Catholic college taking pictures in Minneapolis
Elsewhere in her rant final week, O’Donnell weighed in on the since-silenced discourse surrounding Trump’s well being and mortality.
“Whether or not bodily, emotionally, spiritually — or all of them wrapped up into one — he’s not doing nicely. He desires to get into heaven. I discover that comical,” she stated.
O’Donnell has been residing within the Dublin suburb of Howth, in Eire, along with her 12-year-old baby since January, having initially moved there following Trump’s election win over Kamala Harris.
In March, O’Donnell revealed she and her baby, who’s non-binary and autistic, have been within the technique of acquiring Irish citizenship following their trans-Atlantic transfer.
