She apologizes and deletes Facebook post that started the Trump and right-wing racist attacks on Haitians
In his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump spread a bizarre and debunked rumor about pets being eaten. The woman who authored an early Facebook post that spread a baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were eating local pets said, she didn’t mean for the post to go viral.
Turns out, even that was incorrect: The neighbor, Kimberly Newton, said she heard about the attack from a third party, “I’m not a racist,” Lee told NBC News, adding that her daughter is half Black and she herself is mixed race and a member of the LGBTQ community. “Everybody seems to be turning it into that, and that was not my intent.”Kamala Harris
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