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Utah House speaker calls for district attorney’s resignation over Trump post
Jul 22, 2024, 7:00 AM | Updated: 9:27 am
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House speaker is calling on the Salt Lake County district attorney to resign over his social media post about former President Donald Trump.
Sim Gill, who has served as Salt Lake County’s top prosecutor since 2011, posted Saturday on X, formerly Twitter, that a “dead body is more competent than Trump to be President. It would do exponentially less harm to our democratic republic & honor our ideals more.”
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Truly, a dead body is more competent than Trump to be President. It would do exponentially less harm to our democratic republic & honor our ideals more.
— Sim Gill (@SimGillDA) July 21, 2024
That post led to sharp criticism from many X users, who pointed out that Trump recently survived an assassination attempt.
On Sunday evening, Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, called on the Democratic district attorney to step down.
“This type of hatred is absolutely inappropriate, especially coming from a DA. These types of comments only divide our State and our Country even further,” Utah house speaker Schultz wrote on X. “Sim Gill’s radical left views, as demonstrated by his recent comment about our former president, have been detrimental to our state.”
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