Jacquline Marsaw, a field director for U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS-2), deleted posts from her Facebook account saying that the shooter who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump should have taken some “shooting lessons.”
The posts, shared in screenshots on X by Russ Latino, have since been deleted, but referred to the shooting as the result of “what your hate speech got you” and encouraged the shooter to get “some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time.”
Marsaw is a case manager and field director for Rep. Thompson, who was the head of the January 6th Commission, and who also introduced legislation in April to remove Trump’s Secret Service detail from him.
An attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was made at a Trump Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13. Secret Service members moved Trump off the stage after shots were fired on him while speaking at the rally. A bullet grazed the former president’s ear, but he was otherwise unharmed.
A local Pennsylvania firefighter was killed in the audience, and two other audience members were critically wounded.
The shooter, 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed during the incident. FBI agents were able to identify him by tracing the rifle he used, which had been legally purchased by his father.
Trump was able to travel and arrived in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, which kicked off on Monday, July 15.
