A Democratic state senator from Missouri has found herself in hot water with the Secret Service, and with a growing number of colleagues who've called for her resignation since a screenshot of her wishing for the President's murder got out on Thursday, August 17.
Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal took to social media with the intention of venting about the trauma she believes Donald Trump is bringing upon the nation. But she wound up letting her frustration get the best of her in the comments section of the post. During an interaction with a user who had disclosed that he has a cousin with Trump's Secret Service detail, the senator assured him that if anyone was going to be pursued by intelligence It would be her. She then wrote, "I hope Trump is assassinated!"
Chappelle-Nadal has been condemned by voices coming from across the aisle, as well as by some among her own party in the hours since. Republican Gov. Eric Greitens and Missouri Democratic Party chairman Stephen Webber have publicly denounced her comments, as have Democratic Senators Claire McCaskill and William Lacy Cley. However, the senator has continually vowed not to step down, stating that her constituents need her.
"I am not resigning. When POC are respected by this WH & they are willing to do real work, I'll sit down with them. People are traumatized!" Chappelle-Nadal wrote on Twitter. She would later tweet out the screenshot of a tweet that Trump himself disseminated in 2012, in which he defended a remark that was similar in nature to the one she's made. "Ted Nugent was obviously using a figure of speech, unfortunate as it was. It just shows the anger people have towards Barack Obama," Trump wrote at the time.
Source: washingtonpost.com
