J.K. Rowling responds to Donald Trump Jr.'s tweet about socialism
Expellliarmus!
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Donald Trump Jr. has just been taken all the way down to burn town.
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If your name's Donald Trump Jr. and you start tweeting about socialism, it's not going to go unnoticed.
On Halloween night, the president's eldest son decided to use his daughter to make a political point.
Here's the original, now widely-mocked tweet:
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A lot of people, like historian and author Kevin M. Kruse, pointed out the big flaw in Trump Jr.'s logic.
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Then, on Wednesday morning, J.K. Rowling waded in:
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If this were a wizarding dual, Donald Trump Jr. would just have been expelliarmus'd.
Hard.
Topics JK Rowling X/Twitter Politics Celebrities
