Author Stephen King has issued a public apology for saying that the crash of the Amtrak train carrying GOP Congressmen in Virginia which left one man dead was “karma.”
On Wednesday, an Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress and staff collided with a garbage truck, resulting in one fatality and dozens of injuries. Christopher Foley, 28, the passenger in the garbage truck, died from his injuries.
Stephen King issued this tasteless response to the tragedy:
The tweet earned King over 22,000 likes, and though the author has since apologized, he has yet to delete the tweet.
“Of COURSE sorry the truck driver died,” he later tweeted.
“A rather thoughtless tweet from me concerning the train-truck crash, for which I apologize (if one is necessary),” he said. “It should be pointed out, too, that those Republican politicians, who can be heartless when they vote, immediately got out to help.”
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) were all passengers on that train.