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American Military News
05-05-2025
- Politics
- American Military News
Pics: Teacher urges Secret Service to assassinate Trump
A high school English teacher called for the United States Secret Service to assassinate President Donald Trump and claimed that 'Trump and his cronies need to die' in a series of posts on Facebook last week. In a Tuesday post on Facebook, JoAnna St. Germain, a teacher at Waterville Senior High School, wrote, 'The Secret Service has the perfect opportunity, if they choose to step up and take it. You are the ones with the power. Coordinate. Take out every single person who supports Trump's illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts.' 'I'm talking about Americans recognizing a fascist dictatorship and standing against it,' St. Germain added. 'Secret Service, you are Americans. My beloved military, you are Americans. We, the people, are counting on you. If I had the skill set required, I would take them out myself.' In her Tuesday post, St. Germain said she was 'not talking about assassinating a president' since a president is 'a person duly elected by the American people.' The high school teacher claimed that Trump has 'bragged' about 'stealing the election.' In a Wednesday Facebook post, St. Germain reiterated her call to have Trump and his allies killed, saying, 'I posted knowing I'd likely lose my job and benefits. I have zero shame about what I've said. I'm not backtracking a single thing.' She added, 'I believe Trump and every sycophant he has surrounded himself with… needs to die.' In another post on Facebook, St. Germain acknowledged that people were 'quite angry' with her for 'stating openly that Trump and his cronies need to die.' READ MORE: Pics: Secret Service shoots armed man near White House 'If you're mad at this post, knowing that I just threw away a decade of experience teaching the truth, fully knowing that my superintendent will have to fire me? If you're mad that I'm speaking truth to power? F-ck you,' Germain added. In an emailed statement shared by The Maine Wire, Waterville Public Schools Superintendent Peter Hallen addressed the teacher's social media statements. 'Please know that I have taken steps to ensure everyone's safety and am, along with the appropriate authorities, actively investigating the incident,' Hallen wrote. 'While I cannot comment on personal matters, I assure you that due process and the safety of our students and staff are my highest priority.' St. Germain appeared to issue a response to Hallen's comments in a follow-up post on social media. 'To be clear, publicly: I knew what I was doing when I did it,' the Waterville teacher said. 'I'm not the least f-cking sorry.' A picture of St. Germain was shared by The Maine Wire on X, formerly Twitter, alongside a screenshot of one of her posts last week. Waterville teacher calls for Trump supporters to be assassinated. "If I had the skill set required, I would take them out myself." — The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) April 30, 2025
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
AG Bondi takes Maine to court over transgender athletes
The ongoing war to prohibit biological men from competing in women's sports has reached new heights, as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced her office will be taking Maine to court over the matter. 'Maine's leadership has refused to comply at every turn, so now we have no other choice. We are taking them to court,' Bondi said at a press conference, Wednesday. The federal government is seeking both an injunction to get Maine to comply and to return titles 'to the young women who rightfully won these sports.' Bondi added, 'And we are also considering whether to retroactively pull all the funding that they have received for not complying in the past.' Bondi referenced a recent incident from February of this year where a transgender competitor going by the name 'Katie' won the Class B girls state championship in pole vaulting for Cumberland's Greely High School. The student had previously competed on the men's high school team 'as a mid-level athlete,' reported The Maine Wire. The publication added that Katie's score would have placed the athlete 10th in the boys competition. 'He beat every other girl by a significant margin. That qualified him for regional championships. That took a spot away from a young woman in women's sports,' Bondi said at the press conference. Bondi then read a letter from Aaron Frey, Maine's attorney general, addressed to the Department of Education, refusing to comply with the U.S. attorney general's request to prohibit biological men from competing in women's sports. 'We will not sign the resolution agreement. We do not have revisions or a counter proposal. We agree we are at an impasse. Nothing in Title IX or its implementing regulations prohibit schools from allowing transgender girls and women to participate on girls' and women's sports teams,' Bondi read. 'Well they must not be reading the same Title IX that we're reading,' she said. Bondi continued, 'I don't care if it's one, I don't care if it's two, I don't care if it's 100 — it's going to stop, and it's going to stop in every single state." Disagreements over transgender issues between Maine and the federal government do not end with women's sports. The Justice Department also pulled $1.5 million in grants from Maine's Corrections Department for allowing a biological man to be sentenced to and reside in a women's prison, per The New York Times. 'We don't want to be suing people,' Bondi said. 'We want them to comply with the law, and that's what we're doing. We have given them (Maine) opportunity ... over and over again.' Bondi added that the Department of Education and the HHS met with Maine representatives multiple times in person 'and got nowhere,' so the lawsuit is 'because they refused to protect young women in their state.' Bondi said her office decided to pull the million and a half dollars in grants 'because we saw they allowed a 6'1″, 245 (lbs) giant man who had violently murdered his parents with a knife and the family dog, serving life in prison." 'And he chose to identify as a woman,' Bondi said. 'So guess where he's being held. In a female prison in Maine. So therefore, we don't want to give any more money to the department of corrections in Maine if that's how they're going to act.' A reporter asked Bondi if her office planned on taking any other states to court as well. Bondi mentioned active investigations in Minnesota and California. 'We have reached out to them, we have sent them letters,' she said. 'We are in the same posture we were in the beginning here with Maine. So let's see what they do. Let's see if they comply.' 'We don't want to sue anyone,' Bondi continued. 'We just want you to comply with federal law and protect girls. But yes, we are fully prepared to sue them and others that we will be looking at as well.'
