The previous “Dukes Of Hazzard” star John Schneider, who has lengthy been one of many solely overtly conservative Christian stars in Hollywood, referred to as for President Joe Biden to be executed in a social media put up that was put up within the early hours of Thursday morning.
Schneider Calls For Biden To Be Executed
Hours after being revealed because the Donut and getting second place on “The Masked Singer,” Schneider, 63, took to social media to blast Biden in a put up that has since been deleted.
“Mr. President, I consider you’re responsible of treason and needs to be publicly hung. Your son too. Your response is..? Sincerely, John Schneider,” the actor wrote, in keeping with Yahoo News.
Schneider wrote this in response to a put up Biden had written concerning the former President Donald Trump.
“Trump poses many threats to our nation: The precise to decide on, civil rights, voting rights, and America’s standing on the planet,” Biden wrote. “However the best menace he poses is to our democracy. If we lose that, we lose every thing.”
Calls For Secret Service To Take Motion
Daily Mail reported that liberals have responded by calling on the Secret Service and federal authorities to take motion in opposition to Schneider.
“John Schneider deleted his tweet saying President Biden needs to be hanged. However the web is perpetually and wouldn’t or not it’s a disgrace if ‘Bo Duke’ receives a go to from some federal brokers,” one social media consumer commented, with one other including, “s John Schneider going to get the identical therapy that Kathy Griffin acquired from the Secret Service? She posed for an image, and he made an precise menace in opposition to the president and his son.”
This was a reference to the comic Kathy Griffin, who has lengthy claimed that she was investigated by the Secret Service after posing with the simulated severed head of Donald Trump for a photoshoot again in 2017. She alleges that she was positioned beneath federal investigation, placed on a no-fly checklist, and “interrogated beneath oath” after this, though there has by no means been any tangible proof launched to the general public to again up these claims.
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Schneider has lengthy been one of many solely overtly conservative stars in Hollywood. Again in 2018, he mentioned that it was time for “for Hollywood stars to come back out of the Republican closet.”
“I do suppose there’s a bias in opposition to conservatives, Republicans, in Hollywood, however I feel if you happen to let that alter how you’re, then I query how you’re,” he mentioned on the time.
Schneider doubled down on this in 2021, expressing his perception that he’s been blacklisted by Hollywood for his conservative views.
“You don’t actually lose a task. You’re simply not checked out,” he defined to Fox Business. “You’re not thought of for one thing”
Schneider Finishes Runner-Up On ‘The Masked Singer’
Hours earlier than his put up about Biden, Schneider was overjoyed to complete as runner-up to the R&B singer NE-YO on “The Masked Singer,” explaining that competing on the present has helped him cope with his grief over shedding his spouse Alicia Allain to breast most cancers earlier this yr.
“It actually helped me get by the worst yr of my life,” Schneider informed People Magazine afterwards. “So I’m delighted to have completed it. I’m honored to have completed it. I’m so impressed with the way in which they do that present. I’ve sung on stage rather a lot. I’ve completed Broadway and live shows.”
“I imply, for crying out loud, I’ve completed it for 40 years however I’ve by no means, by no means skilled a bunch of people that do what they do with such excellence,” he continued. “From starting to finish, it was the best expertise I’ve had doing music on tv.”
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Whereas calling for the execution of a sitting president isn’t one thing that we’d assist, celebrities have gotten away with saying far worse issues about Trump through the years. After the troublesome yr that Schneider has had, we will solely hope that folks reduce him some slack on this one and permit him to proceed his grieving course of in peace.
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