Be careful what you wish for.
Be careful what you wish for.
State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal of Missouri is in hot water after a comment posted on her private Facebook page calling for Donald Trump’s assassination went public.
She issued an apology to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in which she claimed she posted the comment, which read “I hope Trump is assassinated!, ” out of frustration.
“I didn’t mean what I put up. Absolutely not. I was very frustrated, ” she told the publication. “Things have got to change.”
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She told the Post-Dispatch she was specifically upset about Trump’s response to the Charlottesville, Va., rally that drew white supremacists and neo-Nazis in protest.
Whether she meant it or not, Chappelle-Nadal is now the subject of an investigation being conducted by the Secret Service, a secondary report from the Post-Dispatch suggests.
The U. S. Secret Service’s St. Louis field office confirmed to the outlet that they were “looking into this.”
Speaking hypothetically, special agent Kristina Schmidt told the outlet that such investigations aim to “determine intent, to determine if there was a violation of federal law. If there is, then we refer it to the U. S. Attorney.”
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Chappelle-Nadal has deleted the comment, which was made in response to a conversation with another user.
The man, later identified as Chappelle-Nadal’s cousin, wrote, “now I’ll probably get a visit from the secret service smdh.”
The Sen. replied, “No. I will. I hope Trump is assassinated!”
