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

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

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Nor does he apologize:

How about an apology to your constituents and some self-reflection about what it means to be a leader during a crisis? You failed miserably.

— Alfred Spellman (@AlfredSpellman) June 20, 2021

This really is unacceptable:

Unacceptable. https://t.co/Vjk2tSxaWL

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 20, 2021

He’s going to have to do better than this:

This mayor saw a car accident and then made a public statement — with no evidence — that it was a terrorist attack. That is unacceptable for a public official. https://t.co/ICTGOScCYw

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 20, 2021

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