ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia GOP consultant whose last campaign featured a “deportation bus” is back with a Twitter post seeming to question whether the Obama adviser insulted by Roseanne Barr is truly black.
Seth Weathers was until recently campaign manager for a failed gubernatorial bid by state Sen. Michael Williams and had served as state director for the Trump campaign.
Weathers on Tuesday tweeted a picture of Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett with the caption: “FYI, this is the ’African-American’ that (Barr) offended. Questions?”
Barr’s show was canceled after she posted a tweet that likened Jarrett to a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and a “Planet of the Apes” actor.
Critics saw Weathers’ comments as questioning Jarrett’s African-American identity.
Weathers told AP his tweet was meant to imply he believed Barr’s claim that she didn’t know Jarrett was black.
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The spelling of the last instance of Jarrett’s name has been corrected.
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