Donald Trump’s Butler Being Investigated By Secret Service Over Facebook Obama Death Threats
Donald Trump’s former butler is being investigated by the Secret Service. Anthony Senecal reportedly issued a death threat against President Barack Obama on Facebook. Senecal worked for Trump for 17 years.
Donald Trump has disavowed the Obama Facebook death threat. Anthony Senecal, 84, has not been Trump’s butler for many years. He gave tours of the Republican nominee’s Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago.
The former butler reportedly wrote this Obama death threat on Facebook.
“[Obama] should have been taken out by our military and shot as an enemy agent in his first term.”
During an interview with CNN, the 84-year-old Trump butler admitted he wrote the Facebook post about President Obama and went on to clarify one point and expand upon his feelings about the current Oval Office holder.
“I think I said hung. Either way, I don’t care. Hanging, shooting — I’d prefer he’d be hung from the portico of the White House, or as I call it, the white mosque. Does it sound like I’m nuts? Because I’m not. “I’ve just gotten fed up with him.”
Anthony Senecal also told CNN that he believes President Barack Obama is a Muslim and is “jamming the muzzies [Muslims] down my throat.”
When asked what he thought about Donald Trump’s desire to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from the United States, the butler called the idea “common sense.”
Trump has stated many times that allowing Syrian refugees who have not been properly vetted to resettle in the United States is a threat to national security. The GOP presumptive nominee cited FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before Congress to bolster his point. Comey admitted the current background system is lackluster at best, and thorough background checks and identity confirmation of refugees and immigrants coming to America from the Middle East are not yet feasible. ISIS has vowed to infiltrate the Syrian refugee groups coming to the U.S.
Both President Obama and Hillary Clinton favor allowing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to relocate to the United States. Trump believes creating secure refugee camps within the Middle East is a far more viable and safe option.
Hope Hicks, a representative from the Donald Trump campaign, said the presumptive Republican nominee has disavowed the Obama Facebook death threats, deeming them “horrible statements.” According to Hicks, even though Tony Senecal has not been Trump’s butler for many years, the candidate felt it was appropriate to address the issue.
The Secret Service is looking into the Obama death threat and will follow protocol while conducting a review of Anthony Senecal’s Facebook posts.
The death threat first revealed by Mother Jones is reportedly just one of about a dozen social media statements about Obama and Hillary Clinton authored by Donald Trump’s butler. In one of the Facebook posts about Hillary Clinton, Senecal referred to the presumptive Democrat nominee as a “lying b***h” and called her “Killery.” The derogatory nickname was first penned by U.S. Marines upset with the former Secretary of State for her actions, or lack there of, during the Benghazi terror attack.
“Obama should be hung from the white mosque.” That captures the nature of this bigotry in profound ways. It stems… https://t.co/vVY08yYjPv
— Omar Suleiman (@omarsuleiman504) May 13, 2016
“These are my ideas. They have nothing to do with Mr. Trump,” the former butler added.
During an interview with the New York Times in March, Senecal said he and Trump never chatted about politics during his employment. In the interview, the 84-year-old talked about Trump’s sleeping patterns, food preferences, and pet peeves. The two last saw each other about a month ago, according to Senecal.
What do you think about the statements made by Donald Trump’s butler and the media uproar over the incident?
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