March For Our Lives co-founder and Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg apologized to Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) on Thursday for mistakenly calling him out for a skipped meeting on gun reform legislation.
“Rubio staff said I can’t meet with him or his staff because I ‘trigger’ him. I just wanna have a conversation,” Hogg wrote in a tweet around noon. “Please meet with me @marcorubio I just want to figure out how we can stop these things from happening,” Hogg added. “We have to end the continuous debate and find what we can agree on”.
Hogg’s initial tweet drew a quick response from Rubio’s chief of staff Michael Needham, who accused Hogg of intentionally lying about the meeting.
“No one said such a thing. As for the meeting, you must be confused as we had a 2p meeting scheduled with you,” Needham said in a tweet. “However, since you are lying and clearly using this all for self-promotion, that meeting is now cancelled.”
“Also, the reporter doing a profile of you knows the meeting is real since she was emailing yesterday with our comms team about it,” Needham added. “Don’t lie again — we have receipts.”