The Secret Service is investigating Facebook posts made by Donald Trump's longtime butler, Anthony Senecal, where he called for President Obama to be shot and hanged, a spokesman for the agency told BuzzFeed News.
In one post, Senecal, who worked at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, calls Obama "our pus headed 'president'" and writes that he "should be taken out by our military and shot as an enemy combatant."
In others, he writes that the President "needs to be hung" and calls him a "rotten filthy muzzie" — a derogatory term used against Muslims.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, the Secret Service said it was aware of the social media posts.
"The U.S. Secret Service is aware of this mater and will conduct the appropriate investigation," a spokesman wrote.
The original post appeared to have been removed by Thursday afternoon, but not before it was widely reported in several news outlets.
However, other posts, including some where he incorrectly refers to the president as a Muslim, remain on his Facebook profile.
A spokeswoman for Donald Trump's campaign told a New York Times reporter that Senecal "has not worked at Mar-a-Lago for many years."
Time also reported that Senecal retired as Trump's butler back in 2009.
But in an extensive New York Times interview in March, the 74-year-old is described as the presidential candidate's "longtime butler" and that despite trying to retire in 2009, "Mr. Trump decided he was irreplaceable."
According to the article, Senecal "has been kept around" at Mar-a-Lago as a historian. He is described as still working closely with the presumptive Republican nominee, taking his suits to be pressed and handing him a bundle of newspapers early in the morning.
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