Donald Trump's butler of 17 years has repeatedly called for President Obama to be shot and hanged, according to an investigation by Mother Jones. While the butler, Anthony Senecal, has a public Facebook page, he wrote in a private post published Wednesday that Obama should have been "shot as an enemy agent":
To all my friends on FB, just a short note to you on our pus headed "president" !!!! This character who I refer to as zero (0) should have been taken out by our military and shot as an enemy agent in his first term !!!!! Instead he still remains in office doing every thing he can to gut the America we all know and love !!!!! Now comes Donald J Trump to put an end to the corruption in government !!!! [via Mother Jones]
Senecal has a long history of calling for Obama's death as well as citing right-wing conspiracy theories, like the one that claims the president is the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. "It's all me," Senecal confirmed to Mother Jones of the posts on his page.
Among them is a post from April 2015, in which Senecal wrote, "Looks like that sleezey bastard zero (O) is trying to out maneuver Congress again, if the truth be known this prick needs to be hung for treason!!!" Senecal also wrote last spring that, "[W]ith the last breath I draw I will help rid this America of the scum infested in its government — and if that means dragging that ball less dick head from the white mosque and hanging his scrawny ass from the portico — count me in !!!!!" Senecal has also called for the hanging of Hillary Clinton.
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Senecal, 84, has worked at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort since 1959 and has been in Trump's employment since the real estate mogul acquired the property around 1985. In 2009, Senecal attempted to retire as a butler but Trump insisted he stay on as the in-house historian of the resort. However, the Trump campaign told Mother Jones in a statement that "this individual has not worked at Mar-a-Lago for many years." Read the entire investigation over at Mother Jones.
Update 5:02 p.m.: The Trump campaign issued the following statement regarding Senecal's Facebook posts about President Obama. Jeva Lange
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