The joke’s on Stephen Colbert.
On his “Late Show,” the funnyman accused Republican Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon of inventing a story about a Democratic voter who changed his party affiliation to the GOP due to his frustration about “pornographic” materials in libraries.
But it turns out the supposedly fictitious man is very real.
Khalil Othman, 41, a former Dearborn City Council candidate, came forward as the man Dixon had referred to at a debate against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Oct. 25, the Detroit Free Press reported.
“To claim that I’m not here, I don’t exist, I’m not human, that’s absolute ignorance,” Othman told the newspaper.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2022/11/03/man-who-switched-to-gop-rips-stephen-colbert-for-saying-he-was-made-up/
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