Jacqueline Marsaw, a former staffer for Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), has been fired after a since-deleted Facebook post appeared to support the assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
“I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking,” the post read.
Marsaw said she removed the post per the request of a manager on Thompson’s staff.
“I got overwhelmed in the moment,” Marsaw told the Natchez Democrat. “I am a diehard Democrat.”
“I was made aware of a post made by a staff member and she is no longer in my employment,” Thompson said in a statement, according to Fox News.
Following the assassination attempt, Thompson wrote on social media, “There is no room in American democracy for political violence. I am grateful for law enforcement’s fast response to this incident.”
“I am glad the former President is safe, and my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved.”
Thompson previously authored the “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act,” which would have stripped Trump of Secret Service detail.
The bill, introduced in April, would have terminated Secret Service protection for “any person upon sentencing following conviction for a Federal or State offense that is publishable for a term of imprisonment of at least one year.”
Thompson’s bill followed Trump’s May conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
The bill was co-sponsored by Democratic Reps. Troy Carter (LA), Barbara Lee (CA), Frederica Wilson (FL), Yvette Clarke (NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ), Jasmine Crockett (TX), Joyce Beatty (OH), and Steve Cohen (TN).
Thompson was also chairman of the January 6 select committee.
