Sen. Marco Rubio tweets about 'explosion at German Dam' causing blackout... Doesn't realize 'Germán Dam' is a human reporter.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been a vocal critic of the regime of disputed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, particularly in recent days as widespread power outages wreak havoc throughout the South American nation. However, Rubio's zeal to highlight this ongoing problem led the lawmaker to make an embarrassing goof.
Rather, it looks like Rubio goofed and somehow confused the name of South American journalist reporting on the outages with the actual source of the blackout — as noted by none other than journalist Germán Dam himself. The original Rubio tweet remains live on the senator's feed, as part of a longer thread about the blackouts in Venezuela.
Rubio responded to the allegation that he was somehow to blame for the blackout by responding,"I must have pressed the wrong thing on the"electronic attack" app I downloaded from Apple. My bad."
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