Chuck Woolery issued a blanket statement in apparent defense of President Donald Trump that elicited howls of laughter on Twitter.
The former game show host of “Wheel of Fortune” and “Love Connection” argued Wednesday that the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report was “NOT QUILTY.”
Does not matter if it took 400+ pages or 4 pages. The conclusion is the same. Simply put in two words. NOT QUILTY. Accept it or not.
— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) May 1, 2019
The online editions of the Merriam-Webster and Collins dictionaries offer no definitions for the term “quilty.”
Woolery, 78, is the host of the “Blunt Force Truth” political podcast and describes himself in his Twitter bio as a “Hollywood Conservative.”
He immediately held his hands up to the gaffe:
Guilty Quilty, Let’s call the whole thing off.
— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) May 1, 2019
But not before the post went viral as people responded to his statement in all kinds of amusing ways:
Not quilty.
I’m not a legal expert, but I’m fairly certain that the fabric arts were not within the scope of Mueller’s investigation.
But it is certainly a tangle. https://t.co/HiltwwDrYO
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) May 2, 2019
Nobody ever claimed trump was quilty. Quilts are warm, often quite complex, beautiful, and take hard work and ingenuity. Nobody has ever used any of those words to describe trump.
— Problematic (@sweatinthruahat) May 2, 2019
Long-time host of word-guessing show, Wheel of Fortune rings in with a blanket statement about the Mueller Report:
NOT QUILTY https://t.co/nCoVNGJ33d
— Bob Bierman (@bobbierman) May 2, 2019
That’s a BLANKET statement if I ever heard one.
— tyrez (@tyrez) May 1, 2019
He was not agguitted either
— Dave Anthony – Bring Back The Night King (@daveanthony) May 2, 2019
I think you’re knit picking
— Jeff Proctor (@Jeff__Proctor) May 2, 2019
The Barr letter is NOT QUILTY. Not even the least little bit QUILTY. If it were QUILTY, it would look like this: pic.twitter.com/Kj4EXSxcHg
— CandiBea_1966 (@CandiBea_1966) May 2, 2019
Took some effort to patch together that statement.
— Gary Wright (@ItsMeGaryLee) May 2, 2019
I’m just here for the quatio.
— Steve Bright (@stephenpbright) May 2, 2019