Fort Lauderdale mayor FINALLY clarifies his statement calling the Pride parade accident a 'terrorist attack,' promptly MAKES IT WORSE

Greg P. | 4:46 PM on June 20, 2021

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis finally corrected the record after numerous media outlets quoted him prematurely calling the car accident at the Wilton Manors, Fla. Pride parade a terrorist attack, saying the event “terrorized me and all around me”:

My statement following yesterday's events in Wilton Manors is below.
I want to thank our first responders for their efforts as police and medical personnel immediately attended to the scene. pic.twitter.com/lahwAQPO3C

— Mayor Dean J. Trantalis (@DeanTrantalis) June 20, 2021

OMFG. So much of the wrong reporting in this story is because of HIM and this is the BS he says now? He’s saying it was a terror attack because he felt personally terrorized by it?

Mayor of Fort Lauderdale, where truck ran into crowd at Pride parade: “This was a terrorist attack against the LGBTQ community. He came here to destroy people. This was clearly no accident.” https://t.co/95mxmE8Siy

— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) June 20, 2021

And the “terrorist attack” narrative was born, and then repeated over and over again thanks to this hack:

. @thehill has tweeted the “terrorist” attack story 3x so far. pic.twitter.com/nqyF70IQpT

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) June 20, 2021

Note that Trantalis doesn’t take any responsibility for the narrative HE created:

.@DeanTrantalis appears to not be taking any responsibility for giving on the record statements that turned out to be totally false. https://t.co/BSP22DzRL8

— Matt Karolian (@mkarolian) June 20, 2021