Chelsea Handler is set to focus full-time on political activism following the cancellation of her Netflix talk show this month — but the newly minted activist may want to brush up on her knowledge of federal lawmakers, after she apparently mistook Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) to be a woman in a Twitter post Saturday.
“So, Republican rep. Dana Rohrabacher from California is was the original person who received info from Russia, because she works w/ them,” Handler wrote on Twitter Saturday.
The 70-year-old Rohrabacher, who worked as a speechwriter in President Ronald Reagan’s White House and has served in elected office in California since 1989, is a man.
Social media users were quick to point out the mistake.
“Rep. Rohrabacher is a man. But way to assume their gender,” one commenter wrote.
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