Volatile Post About Trump May End Lawmaker's Career

A state lawmaker in Missouri may have derailed her own political career with a jaw-dropping online post about the president. "I hope Trump is assassinated!" state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal wrote during a Facebook exchange on her personal, non-public page Thursday morning. The Democrat preceded it by writing that she'd likely get a visit from the Secret Service, and the Kansas City Star reports that the agency is indeed investigating. 

It seems that pretty much every top political leader in the state from both parties has called on her to resign, but Chappelle-Nadal says she will not do so. "I am not resigning," she tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "What I said was wrong, but I am not going to stop talking about what led to that, which is the frustration and anger that many people across America are feeling right now."

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