Prof Maischak sure said a lot of offensive things for someone who claims he didn’t want to offend anyone.
The history professor at California State University, Fresno who appeared to advocate for the death of President Donald Trump on Twitter has apologized profusely and taken a temporary leave of absence in an undisclosed location because he now fears for his personal safety.
The professor, Lars Maischak, composed the tweets around the end of February. The tweets called for Trump to “hang” in order to “save American democracy.” “The sooner and the higher, the better.” The only “cure” for racist people is a bullet to their head, the tweets also said. Maischak used hashtags including “#TheResistance” and “#DeathToFascism.”
Maischak says he now deeply regrets composing and publishing the tweets.
“I ask forgiveness of those who felt threatened or offended by them,” Maischak wrote in a statement obtained by the Los Angeles Times. “It was never my intent to harm anyone, nor to encourage others to harm anyone.”
“I never expected them to be read by anyone but a close circle of acquaintances who would know to place them in their context,” Maischak also said in the Wednesday statement.
He did not intend for the now-deleted Twitter account to be viewed as an “invitation, or endorsement of, violence,” he said.
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Another tweet read: “#TheResistance #ethniccleansing Justice = The execution of two Republicans for each deported immigrant.”
Also: “Mercy towards racists was always the fatal weakness of good Americans” and “#WhenCaliforniaSecedes, You Fascist Trump-voting white trash scum can wallow in your filthy hell-holes of flyover states.”
The history professor further suggested the need to “ban the @GOP” because “a democracy must not be tolerant of those who want to abolish democracy.”
Maischak is now facing an investigation by the Secret Service. He has offered his complete cooperation, he said.