So-called comedian Rosie O’Donnell has issued a formal apology following inaccurate statements she made about the Minneapolis school shooter who killed two children at a Catholic school last week.
The entertainer, who previously moved to Ireland following Donald Trump’s election victory, posted a video statement on TikTok Friday making false claims about the shooter’s political affiliation.
In her original TikTok video, O’Donnell stated her reaction to news of the Minnesota shooting.
“Saw about the Minnesota shooting, and it brought me right back to Columbine in 1999 when I just could not get it through my head that students in American were shooting each other in schools,” she said, per reports.
O’Donnell then made unsubstantiated claims about the shooter’s identity and motivations.
“This was a church inside a Catholic school. And what do you know? This was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person, what do you know? White supremacist,” she stated in the video.
The shooter, however, has been identified as Robin Westman, a man that pretended to be a woman who held nihilistic viewpoints and maintained an obsession with previous mass shooters.
Investigators discovered that Westman had written “kill Donald Trump” in white lettering on one of her weapons, along