A local high school football appeared to suggest that Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was somehow fake or staged.
“If y’all believe Trump was actually shot at, I’ve got some beach front property to sale [sic] you in south Dallas,” West Mesquite High School football coach Stephen Jackson Jr. wrote in a post on X post the day after the shooting.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump in the ear on Saturday at a campaign rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania. In addition to wounding Trump, Crooks purportedly killed 50-year-old retired fire chief Corey Comperatore, who shielded his wife and daughter with his own body. Two other bystanders were also injured, though both are reportedly in stable condition.
Jackson has since seemingly switched his X account off from public view or deleted it.
West Mesquite High School hired Jackson to be the head football coach just this past April, according to BVM Sports.
The Dallas Express reached out to Jackson but did not receive a response by publication.
Requests for comment were also sent to West Mesquite High School Principal Jordan Simmons and Mesquite ISD’s communications team. Neither was immediately available for comment.
Jackson is one of a number of taxpayer-financed individuals who have come under scrutiny for making inappropriate comments about the assassination attempt online.
For instance, Jaqueline Marsaw, a staffer for Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), lost her job after she posted on Facebook, “I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking.”
Thompson had to come out and acknowledge the post and subsequent parting of ways with Marsaw.
“I was made aware of a post made by a staff member and she is no longer in my employment,” Thompson said, per Fox News.