Rosie O’Donnell has walked back her claim that the Minnesota school shooter who killed two children Wednesday was a MAGA Republican, saying, “when you mess up, you fess up.”
The comedian and former talk show host, who fled the U.S. for Ireland following Donald Trump’s re-election, posted a TikTok video Thursday branding the shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, a “MAGA person.”
“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 America were shooting each other in schools,” she said in the video, which she has since deleted.
“This was a church inside a Catholic school. And what do you know? It was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person, what do you know? White supremacist.”
Westman, who is repo