Maine high school teacher calls for Secret Service to assassinate President Trump

"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," said Waterville Senior High School English teacher JoAnna St. Germain, per the New York Post.

"If I had the skill set required," St. Germain went on to say, "I would take them out myself." She also stated that she didn't believe she was "talking about assassinating a president," defining "a president" as "a person duly elected by the American people." She said that Trump, instead, is heading up "a fascist dictatorship."

"When I say that Trump and all the sycophants he’s surrounded himself with need to die, I mean that sh*t . . . I’ll die on that hill, happily," the Post notes her as saying and having pinned to the top of her Facebook page. At the time of writing, her page appears to have been taken down.

"I have zero shame about what I've said," she goes on to say. "I'm not backtracking a single Thing. I believe Trump and every sycophant he has surrounded himself with... needs to die." She said this while stating that she knows she is risking her job in saying so.

In a follow-up post the next day, she acknowledged that people were "quite angry" with her over her views, and wrote "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."

Waterville Public Schools Superintendent Peter Hallen did respond to the post, saying "Please know that I have taken steps to ensure everyone's safety and am, along with the appropriate authorities, actively investigating the incident."

"While I cannot comment on personal matters," he continued, "I assure you that due process and the safety of our students and staff are my highest priority."

St. Germain indicated in a follow-up post that she was "not the least f*cking sorry" because she "knew what [she] was doing when [she] did it."

It is unclear what St. Germain sought to gain by making a Facebook post calling for the assassination of the president.