Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is calling for the resignation of a local councilwoman in upstate New York who compared the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump to putting down a rabid dog, according to the New York Post.
“Far Left Democrats supporting political violence and the assassination of President Trump are shameful and do not deserve to represent the great people of the North Country,” said the statement from Stefanik, the chair of the House Republican Conference. “Potsdam Town Board Member Christine Paige must be condemned by the NY Democrat State Party and she must resign in disgrace after she said shooting President Trump would be like ‘putting down a rabid dog.'”
Paige's comments were made in a Facebook exchange, where she reportedly said, “I have seen no credible proof that [Trump is] a human being. Maybe you know something we don’t. To me, it would be akin to putting down a rabid dog.”
She told North Country Now she will not apologize for her statement and has a right to freedom of speech.
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Fellow Democrats in the Potsdam government also condemned her actions, with supervisor Marty Miller saying, “I can tell you firsthand this selfish act of one person’s satisfaction has been a nightmare for me and the rest of the Board the last couple of weeks.”
The assassination attempt against Trump took place at an event in Butler County, Pennsylvania, last month, when Thomas Crooks, whose motive remains unknown but who appears not to have had a political purpose, sneaked onto a warehouse roof overlooking the rally and opened fire on Trump and the crowd with an AR-15 style rifle before being taken out by the Secret Service counter-sniper team.
An investigation remains ongoing into how the Secret Service failed to properly secure the area.
