Teacher calls for the assassination of Trump, supporters
The latest chapter of leftists and Democrats advocating for violence, even murder, has arrived.
There long have been statements by that community that call for the removal or elimination of President Donald Trump, verbiage that one report called “assassination prep.”
Now an instructor from a school in Maine has turned blunt, with JoAnna St. Germain of Waterville Senior High calling on the Secret Service to kill Trump and his supporters.
On Facebook, she insisted the federal agency “step up” and avoid a civil war by killing Trump and his supporters.
She claimed it would not constitute assassination, since she turned conspiracy theorist with the claim Trump is not a legitimate president “duly elected by the American people.”
She said, “If I had the skill set required, I would take them out myself.”
Jonathan Turley, a constitutional expert and professor of public interest law at George Washington University, was quick to comment.
“Whatever ‘skill set’ St. Germain possess, sanity does not appear to be part of it,” he said.
He noted the recent comments from the left about violence.
“That includes a student who published a column recently on ‘when must we kill them?’ I noted that such views are often reflections of the many extremists currently in teaching. That was evident this week in Maine, where English teacher JoAnna St. Germain of Waterville Senior High School called upon the Secret Service to kill Trump and his supporters.”
Meet JoAnna St Germain, a teacher in Waterville Public Schools in Maine. She just called on the secret service and the military to “take out” Trump supporters.
These are the people teaching your kids https://t.co/0iiaDVGYAN pic.twitter.com/96liOMSBb8
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 30, 2025
English teacher JoAnna St. Germain is under fire this week after calling on the Secret Service to kill Trump and his supporters. We have seen an alarming increase in political violence on the left. Ironically, many do so in the name of democracy. https://t.co/a0Yh11mTbV
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 2, 2025
She wrote, “I believe Trump and every sycophant he has surrounded himself with (this is not you – if you’re reading this, this doesn’t apply to you. You are beneath his notice and mine) needs to die. I believe this with the same forceful belief that Hitler and his sycophants needed to die, before they murdered 6 million innocent Jewish persons.”
Turley explained, “These faculty members have normalized violent speech.”
“After losing the last election, some on the left are turning to calls for violence or committing political violence. Ironically, they do so in the name of democracy. That is precisely why rage is so addictive and contagious. It gives you license to do things that you would ordinarily never do,” Turley said.
WND reported just days ago on comments from Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat billionaire, of Illinois.
He said, “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on a soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.”
The Federalist explained, “The language is all too familiar and can only be described as assassination prep – carefully cloaked in moral outrage – designed to incite the most egregious acts of political violence. His words follow the same formula of other leftists: frame the political opposition as not merely wrong, but evil and tyrannical, then justify any means to defeat them. Such language is meant to dehumanize their opponents and provide moral permission for violence.”
WOW! Governor JB Pritzker just called for mass protests against Trump and Republicans “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.” Powerful. pic.twitter.com/ZPYFuA3kr8
— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) April 28, 2025
In fact, there have been two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump in the last year.
The comments follow a long tradition of Democrats demanding violence.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., in 2021 for protesters to be “confrontational,” a follow to her demand that people harass Trump administration members.
“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. . ..And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, at one point stood at the Supreme Court and threatened Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh: “You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.”
Just last year, Joe Biden complained to donors on a private call it was “time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye,” the report said.
And, it confirmed, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., said Trump “has to be eliminated.”
WND reported last year that Kamala Harris had joined the rhetoric.
She had claimed in multiple ways that Trump would be a dictator if elected.
And other Democrats long have been part of the campaign.
For instance, Del. Stacey Plaskett, the Democrat non-voting delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, said, “He needs to be shot … stopped.”
WHOA! Listen to top Harris surrogate Rep. Plaskett say on MSNBC “[Trump] having the nuclear codes…should be terrifying to all Americans, and he needs to be shot…stopped.” pic.twitter.com/ryLpG30uJB
— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) September 16, 2024
And a video has assembled more than two minutes of direct threats, often from politicians, entertainers and other public figures:
2.5 minutes of Democrats explicitly calling for using political vioIence.
They own this. https://t.co/TroI6oO4R8
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 16, 2024
Among the comments:
“I’d like to punch him in the face.”
“If we were in high school I’d take him behind the gym…
— ng2amarinefunk (@ng2amarinefunk) September 17, 2024
Among the comments:
“I’d like to punch him in the face.”
“If we were in high school I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him,” from Joe Biden
“When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?”
“They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. That’s a fact.”
“Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?”
“I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.”
The Trump campaign itself released a compilation of some of the threats, and identified those making the threats. They mostly are political or media figures or political operatives:
Kamala Harris: “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
Harris: “It’s on us to recognize the threat (Trump) poses.”
Harris: “Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!”
Joe Biden: “It’s time to put Trump in a bull’s-eye.”
Biden: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation!”
Biden: “There is one existential threat: It’s Donald Trump.”
Biden: “Trump is a genuine threat to his nation … He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
Biden : “Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”
Biden: “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. … and that is a threat to this country.”
Tim Walz: “Are (Republicans) a threat to democracy? Yes … Are they going to put peoples’ lives in danger? Yes.”
Gwen Walz: “Buh-bye, Donald Trump.”
Nancy Pelosi: “(Trump) is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen.”
Jasmine Crockett: “MAGA in general – they are threats to us domestically.”
Dan Goldeman: “He is destructive to our democracy and … he has to be eliminated.”
Disgraced Harris staffer TJ Ducklo: “Trump is an existential, urgent threat to our democracy.”
Liz Cheney: “Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis.”
Steve Cohen: “Trump is an enemy of the United States.”
Maxine Waters: “Are (Trump supporters) preparing a civil war against us?”
Waters: “I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that (Trump) is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Trump is an “existential threat to our democracy.”
Adam Schiff: Trump is the “gravest threat to our democracy.”
Gregory Meeks: “Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy.”
Dan Goldman: “Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy.”
Jake Auchincloss: “What unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to Democracy.”
Abigail Spanberger: “Trump is a threat to our democracy … the threats to our democratic republic are real.”
Annie Kuster: “Trump and his extreme right-win followers pose an existential threat to our democracy.”
Becca Balint: “We cannot underestimate the threat (Trump) poses to American democracy.”
Jason Crow: “Trump is an extreme danger to our democracy.”
Michael Bennet: Trump is “a threat to our democracy.”
Steven Horsford: “Trump Republicans are a dangerous threat to our state.”
Gave Vasquez: “Remove the national threat from office.”
And more….