Charles Barkley Issues An Apology After He Is Accused Of Threatening A Female Reporter-The Reporter Later Apologizes After Her Old Inappropriate Tweets Resurface

Late Tuesday, Alexi McCammond, a political press reporter for Axios tweeted that Charles Barkley had actually endangered her while they were having a political discussion. Early Wednesday, Barkley launched an apology launched with his group. However, Alexi additionally discovered herself providing an apology after some of her old tweets resurfaced.

Last evening she required to Twitter as well as stated, “Just FYI Charles Barkley told me tonight “I don’t hit women but if I did I would hit you,” and afterwards when I challenged that he informed me I ‘couldn’t take a joke.’”

She after that continued to claim his remark was since he discussed his love for Deval Patrick, nevertheless, as soon as a person from Pete Buttigieg’s project signed up with the discussion, she declares he after that announced his love for Buttigieg. However, she advised him of his love for Patrick, which supposedly brought about his remark.

Barkley stated in his apology, “My comment was inappropriate and unacceptable. It was an attempted joke that wasn’t funny at all. There’s no excuse for it and I apologize.”

However, she wasn’t as well approving of his apology as well as stated, “The comments Charles Barkley made to me are not acceptable. Threats of violence are not a joke, & no person deserves to be hit or threatened like that. Silence only allows the culture of misogyny to fester. And those kinds of comments don’t merit off-the-record protections.”

Nonetheless, Alexi discovered herself providing her very own apology after some of her previous tweets were given the light. In her apology tweet, she stated, “Today I was reminded of some past insensitive tweets, and I am deeply sorry to anyone I offended. I have since deleted those tweets as they do not reflect my views or who I am today.”

Although the tweets no more exist, some individuals had the ability to record them prior to they were eliminated.

 

Check out the tweets listed below:

 

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