Via Wonkette via FITSNews:

A prominent S.C. Republican Party activist is in hot water after describing an escaped gorilla at a South Carolina zoo as an “ancestor” of First Lady Michelle Obama.

The exchange occurred after Trey Walker, an advisor to S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster, posted an innocuous Facebook update about this morning’s escape of a Western Lowlands Gorilla from Columbia’s Riverbanks Zoo.

This is the exchange, copied from Facebook:

[status] Trey Walker RT @shellsuber Just heard there is a gorilla loose at Riverbanks Zoo. Staff and visitors hiding. Full lock down. Wow.

[comment] Rustty DePass – I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors–probably harmless

It’s a good thing this is just an isolated example of such behavior.

*A screenshot of the exchange can be read here (your author couldn’t get it to load on this page).

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