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Aug. 18, 2017 / 10:43 AM

Missouri senator urged to resign after Trump assassination FB post

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Ed Adamczyk
Missouri State Sen. Marie Chappelle-Nadal said she regretted her Facebook post on Thursday calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump. Missouri political leaders quickly condemned her remarks and called for her resignation. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo

Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A Missouri state senator says she regrets posting a statement hoping for President Donald Tramp's assassination.

"I hope Trump is assassinated!" state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a Democrat, wrote on her personal Facebook page on Thursday morning. She quickly deleted the post, but the U.S. Secret Service is investigating the matter, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday.

Other political leaders, including Missouri's Republican governor and many Democrats, condemned her post and called on her to resign. U.S. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said Chappelle-Neal should resign and called her comments "outrageous."

Missouri Democratic Party Chair Stephen Webber said that the party "will absolutely not tolerate calls for the assassination of the President. I believe she should resign."

Chappelle-Nadal said she was wrong but has no plans to heed those calls to resign from her colleagues, the Kansas City Star reported Friday.

"The way I responded this morning was wrong," she said. "I'm frustrated. Did I mean the statement? No. Am I frustrated? Absolutely. The president is causing damage. He's causing hate. On my personal Facebook [page], I put up a statement saying that I really hate Trump. He's causing trauma and nightmares. That was my original post. A whole bunch of people responded to that. I'm not resigning. Legislators cheat on their wives or smoke marijuana and are not asked to resign. I'm not resigning over a simple mistake."

Chappelle-Nadal is ineligible to run for re-election because of term limits.

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