Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

California professor apologizes for anti-Trump tweet [“must hang”]
Associated Press ^ | Apr 13, 2017 8:25 PM EDT | Jocelyn Gecker

Posted on 04/13/2017 8:45:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai

An American history professor at Fresno State University in California apologized Thursday for a tweet that said President Donald Trump “must hang” to save American democracy.

The professor, Lars Maischak, said he has temporarily left Fresno while the university is on spring break, after receiving death threats and hundreds of hate emails since the tweet was highlighted by far-right websites such as Breitbart News.

“I regret making these tweets,” Maischak said. “I wrote them to an audience of 28 followers on Twitter under the assumption they would be read by people I know.”

Maischak said he sent the tweet in February to voice personal despair over comments by Trump and actions by the current U.S. government and was not trying to incite violence. …

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: fresno; idiotleftieprof; lofan; maischak; trump
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-85 next last
To: Olog-hai

That look like an apology?

Yup. An fbi apology.


21 posted on 04/13/2017 9:05:34 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

>> “I am not in Fresno. I fear for my life,” the professor said

Self-inflicted fear.

Condemn policy, behavior, character, but never threaten the well-being of another. It’s not only illegal, it serves no constructive purpose.


22 posted on 04/13/2017 9:05:38 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: NoLibZone; Jim Robinson

You're from CA, yet you've never heard of Fresno State? Worse yet, you think it's funny.

Fresno State University produces major league players, like former Tampa Bay Quarterback Trent Dilfer.
PUNCH HERE

Better yet, List of California State University, Fresno people acquaint yourself!

I might remind you that Jim resides in Fresno and that Fresno is the home of Free Republic.
23 posted on 04/13/2017 9:05:41 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

The Left-winger received death threats?

Well, golly gee, what the Hell was his tweet ALL about, if not death to President Trump.

I think he'd be better off teaching convicts/cell mates.

24 posted on 04/13/2017 9:11:05 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Telepathic Intruder

I hope he dies.


25 posted on 04/13/2017 9:14:03 PM PDT by windcliff
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

He only tweeted it to 28 fellow travelers, who then re-tweeted it to other fellow travelers who then re-tweeted it to other fellow travelers ans so on and so on.

These are the kind of people who think everyone in the world agrees with them and no one can or would blow the whistle on it all.

Kinda like the last administration and the 2016 Democrat candidate


26 posted on 04/13/2017 9:16:38 PM PDT by digger48
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

This hack said Trump should be hanged.

Now, this hack is on the run, in hiding in fear for his own life.

Ironic.


27 posted on 04/13/2017 9:17:08 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

“After receiving death threats”

Not “after his claims that he has received death threats”


28 posted on 04/13/2017 9:18:38 PM PDT by Professional
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Yep. If you are black, u play the race card.

If u are white, u play the death threat card.


29 posted on 04/13/2017 9:18:47 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: tennmountainman

Guarantee you he is being paid while on leave.


30 posted on 04/13/2017 9:19:28 PM PDT by Professional
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

If it were professor Abimael Guzman, whoever revealed his tweet would have been assasinated. That is how the left ACTUALLY thinks. Most Americans don’t have a clue.


31 posted on 04/13/2017 9:26:27 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: onyx

It shows the state of advanced education in our country, not just Fresno. An American History Professor, that means someone gave this flake a doctorate in the discipline — how very sad.

He was given a doctorate by some shameful university and then the State of California university system made him a professor, probably life tenured.


32 posted on 04/13/2017 9:26:55 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

We are at war right now. Guys like that should not be coddled. Send a few like the professor to GITMO and the rest will learn to keep quiet.


33 posted on 04/13/2017 9:31:30 PM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

>>>>“I wrote them to an audience of 28 followers on Twitter under the assumption they would be read by people I know.”<<<

In my day we would refer to his 28 Followers as Co-Conspirators.


34 posted on 04/13/2017 9:37:45 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Effing idiot.


35 posted on 04/13/2017 9:38:47 PM PDT by onedoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

“Maischak said he sent the tweet in February to voice personal despair over comments by Trump”

What does that even mean?


36 posted on 04/13/2017 9:44:55 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

He’s a leftist. No problem for him.


37 posted on 04/13/2017 9:47:45 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

So the professor says something that is Anti-Democracy saying that trump should have to “save Democracy”, is funny. Democracy worked that elected Trump; The Professor hates Democracy


38 posted on 04/13/2017 9:47:54 PM PDT by realcleanguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GodAndCountryFirst

Bump


39 posted on 04/13/2017 9:50:18 PM PDT by windcliff
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

He’s sorry his comments about his wishes were spread beyond his 28 followers. Not sorry/apologizing for what he said. No “I didn’t mean it” there. Just fear of the backlash.


40 posted on 04/13/2017 9:50:39 PM PDT by EDINVA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-85 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson