GoFundMe pages advocating for assassination of Donald Trump

GoFundMe pages advocating for assassination of Donald Trump

Question 1 is where is the Secret Service? Threatening the life of a president or president-elect is a federal crimes. Question 2 is why has GoFundMe taken these pages down?

The pages in question advocate for the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump. All told there are least nine such pages, some of them as profane as they are treasonous. Here’s the text of one that fits that description (all caps in the original, along with the word spacing and unredacted spelling of the F-bomb):

WE WANT HIM DEAD!HE IS GOING TO F*CK UP OUR COUNTRY AND WE WANT HIM GONE.HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE AND HE IS A WASTE OF SPERM.HE IS ANOTHER HITLER AND HE NEEDS TO DIE.LET’S JOIN HANDS AND MURDER HIM ASAP. Thank You 🙂

“Whoever kill him will get all the donations and get bonded out,” another page added.

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

Yet another said it was looking for $10 million for Mexicans to kill Trump:

“We are raising money to pay the mexicans to kill donald trump bitch a**,” the page says.

mexicans-kill-trumpAccording to GoFundMe, pages that advocate criminal activity violate the website’s terms:

You are solely responsible for all Campaign descriptions, comments, videos, images, information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, messages or other materials (“content”) that you upload, post, publish or display (hereinafter, “upload”) or transmit or otherwise use via the Services. The following are examples of the kind of content and/or use that is illegal or prohibited by GoFundMe. However, this list is not exhaustive and GoFundMe reserves the right to investigate anyone by engaging public and private organizations, including, but not limited to collection agents, private investigators, and local, state, federal and applicable international agencies, and take appropriate action against anyone who, in GoFundMe’s sole discretion, violates any of the terms or spirit of these Terms of Service (or the principles described in our preamble hereto), including, without limitation, removing the offending content, suspending or terminating the account of such violators, stopping payments to any such Campaign, freezing or placing a hold on donated funds when GoFundMe reasonably believes it to be required by applicable law, and reporting you to law enforcement authorities or otherwise taking appropriate legal action. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree to not use the Services to:

A. establish or contribute to any Campaign with the implicit or express purpose relating to any of the following:

1. any activity that violates any law or governmental regulation….

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