UPDATE: Melendez posted the following tweet this afternoon.

Whoops, been out of town but looks like a story I tweeted was incorrect, deleted it, sorry about that! MM — Melissa Melendez (@asmMelendez) November 15, 2016

ORIGINAL POST: Like the president-elect she admires, Inland Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez likes to tweet. This week, the Lake Elsinore Republican retweeted a news item about anti-Trump protesters in Philadelphia beating a homeless veteran to death.

“All of you ‘he’s not my president’ people out there, are you happy now?” she wrote.

Just one problem – it wasn’t true. According to Snopes.com, the item referred to a 2015 incident unconnected to Trump or the protesters opposing America’s new president.

When contacted by The Los Angeles Times about the retweet, Melendez took to social media to mock the press.

“I had a bet with my husband that liberal reporters would flip out over a news story I shared,” she tweeted. “I won $20 thanks libs :)”

Melendez did not respond to a phone call from The Press-Enterprise. In an email, her chief of staff, Sam Spencer, said the assemblywoman has been out of town but removed the tweet “because the story was false.”

The retweet comes amid a national discussion about fake news as it related to the presidential election. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been criticized for not doing enough to halt the spread of fake news on his social media network and for initially downplaying the role fake news played in the race between Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Melendez, a vocal Trump supporter who appeared on stage with him in San Diego, has been criticized for her social media posts before.

Last year, Islamic-American advocacy groups denounced her for a tweet in which she decried the murder of American Kayla Mueller by “Islamic savages.” The tweet included the hashtag #standupagainstislam.

She later used the backlash in an appeal for campaign donations. “Amazing how my words can ignite a media firestorm, but there are people being murdered across the ocean, and no one is up in arms about that,” she wrote in an fundraising message.

Melendez won re-election on Nov. 8 with 65 percent of the vote. The former Lake Elsinore councilwoman represents the 67th Assembly District, which includes Lake Elsinore, Canyon Lake, Murrieta, Menifee and Wildomar.