JK Rowling: Even Lord Voldemort Wasn’t As Bad As Donald Trump

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JK Rowling, the British author of the Harry Potter series, tweeted Tuesday that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was worse than her books’ evil villain, Lord Voldemort.

Rowling’s tweet came after Trump called for preventing all Muslims from entering the United States. The real estate mogul said Monday that he would like to institute a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslim immigration to the country.

Rowling commented on the situation with a link to an article from BBC Newsbeat:

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  1. We knew that, Dick Cheeney has already commented himself…

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    If only there was a scarred and bespectacled 9-year-old GOP presidential candidate…

  3. Avatar for lew lew says:

    True; however Voldemort had better hair.

  4. Mee-oww.

  5. So, that would put Voldemort at the level of Ted Cruz.

    Sounds about right.

    Edit:
    Speaking of evil, I have to turn adblocker back on for TPM, because I am getting a loud autoplay video today on every article I open.

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