Senator who called for Trump's assassination, "It was inappropriate, but I won't apologize"

At the risk of offending many of my readers, Donald Trump has been a nightmare as president of the United States and at some point, the systems that were established by our forefathers- Congress, the courts, and a First Amendment that protects those who deliver the news and those who express their opinions- are going to decide the president's fate.

That process should be allowed to play itself out.

We should not have to wait that long in the State of Missouri.

It is time for Sen. Maria Chappelle Nadal, D-St. Louis, to resign.

When she wrote a Facebook post calling for President Trump to be assassinated, she forfeited any right she has to serve in our state legislature.

She removed the post, but not until after it, quite understandably, created a stir and received nearly universal condemnation from Democrats and Republicans alike, with many calling for her to resign.

In the accompanying video, Chappelle-Nadal says her comments were "inappropriate," but pointedly refuses to apologize to President Trump.

"I hate President Trump," she said. "He is causing mass chaos."

She adamantly insists, "I am not going to resign." Why should she have to resign, she said when there are people in the state legislature who smoke marijuana and cheat on their wives.

What world does she live in where calling for the president to be assassinated equates with smoking marijuana and having extramarital sex?

The reporters in the video give Chappelle-Nadal every chance to walk back her statements. Calling them inappropriate is a copout and it is obvious from the way she says it, that she really does not mean it.

We have enough people spreading hatred and violence without this self-serving senator doing so and claiming she is doing it in the name of the people she represents.