{"id":81286,"date":"2017-08-17T17:58:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T21:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81286"},"modified":"2017-08-18T11:32:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:32:35","slug":"missouri-senator-i-hope-trump-is-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81286","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal hasn&#8217;t even been censured for writing: \u2018I Hope Trump Is Assassinated!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Missouri Senator: \u2018I Hope Trump Is Assassinated!\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Chuck Ross<br \/>\nThe Daily Caller<\/p>\n<p>A Missouri state senator said in a now-deleted Facebook post that she hopes President Donald Trump is assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Chappelle-Nadal acknowledged on Thursday that she wrote a post which read: \u201cI hope Trump is assassinated!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She made the comment in an exchange with a left-wing activist who claimed that his cousin is a Secret Service agent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Missouri State Senator from St. Louis has now called for the assassination of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a>. Keep it classy @MariaChappelleN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JTrkxk4Pkz\">pic.twitter.com\/JTrkxk4Pkz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Reardon (@MarkReardonKFTK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkReardonKFTK\/status\/898213124729430017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chappelle-Nadal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stlouis.cbslocal.com\/2017\/08\/17\/mo-facebook-senator-trump-assassinated-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a>\u00a0to a reporter with St. Louis TV station KMOX that she posted the comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put something up on my personal Facebook page and it has now been deleted,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.@MariaChappelleN has told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KMOX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KMOX<\/a> &quot;I put something up on my personal Facebook page and it has now been deleted<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Reardon (@MarkReardonKFTK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkReardonKFTK\/status\/898213878693335040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chappelle-Nadal, a Democrat, represents a district in a St. Louis suburb.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear exactly what prompted Chappelle-Nadal\u2019s comment. But it was likely made in response to a discussion about the ongoing controversy over Trump\u2019s comments about the violence in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to KMOX, U.S. Secret Service in St. Louis is looking into Chappelle-Nadal\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>State and national politicians called on Chappelle-Nadal to resign over the remarks, but she says she has no plans to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Webber, the chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party, called the comments \u201cindefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cAll sides need to agree that there is no room for suggestions of political violence in America \u2014 and the Missouri Democratic Party will absolutely not tolerate calls for the assassination of the President,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said that the comments were \u201coutrageous\u201d and that Chappelle-Nadal \u201cshould resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chapelle-Nadal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/08\/17\/missouri-lawmaker-posts-deletes-trump-assassination-comment\/577165001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0the Springfield News-Leader that she regretted her post but said she has no plans to resign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHell no!\u201d she said when asked by a reporter if she will quit her position.<\/p>\n<p><em>This post has been updated with additional information.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/08\/17\/missouri-senator-i-hope-trump-is-assassinated\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/08\/17\/missouri-senator-i-hope-trump-is-assassinated\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Senator: \u2018I Hope Trump Is Assassinated!\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}