Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider (whose most up-to-date TV look was on the Tyler Perry sequence The Haves and The Have Nots) is in sizzling water after posting on social media that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden ought to be “hung,” later denying that he did so.
On Wednesday (December 20), John Schneider, greatest recognized for his function as Bo Duke on the late Seventies and Eighties comedy Dukes of Hazzard responded to a submit by President Joe Biden on X, previously often known as Twitter. The president’s submit learn, “Trump poses many threats to our nation: The correct to decide on, civil rights, voting rights, and America’s standing on this planet. Schneider then quoted it with a near-threat. “Mr President,” he wrote, “I imagine you’re responsible of treason and ought to be publicly hung. Your son too. Your response is?”, signing the submit, “Sincerely, John Schneider.”
The timing couldn’t have been worse for Schneider, who was on air after being unmasked within the finale of The Masked Singer on Fox. The submit was deleted, however not earlier than many on-line seen together with Joe Adalian, the West Coast editor for New York Journal who posted it with the caption: “John Schneider took off a couple of masks tonight. Fox gave this man a platform tonight. I’m actually sorry for the lack of his spouse, however that doesn’t excuse calling for the general public execution of POTUS.”
Visibly emotional and teary throughout his look on the present, Schneider defined that his music decisions of Joe Cocker’s “You Are So Lovely” and Dobie Grey’s “Drift Away” had been in honor of his late spouse. Alicia Allain Schneider died from breast most cancers on February 21. Fox canceled their array of Schneider’s scheduled press interviews the morning after, however the conservative actor did converse to Individuals and Fox Information.
Schneider would problem a denial in an announcement: “Significantly, of us? That is my ultimate touch upon this. I neither stated nor implied any such factor. Regardless of headlines claiming in any other case, in my submit, I completely didn’t name for an act of violence or threaten a U.S. president as many different celebrities have achieved prior to now. I counsel you re-read my precise submit and take note of the phrases earlier than believing this nonsense.” Schneider is reportedly now going through an investigation by the Secret Service.
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