Secret Service Reportedly Opens Investigation Into ’80s Icon John Schneider After He Urged a Public Hanging For Biden

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The U.S. Secret Service opened an investigation Thursday into ’80s star John Schneider for demanding the public hanging of Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden, even though he has since walked back those statements.

Although the Secret Service and the White House officially remained mum on the subject, Deadline reported, “sources close to events confirm a probe is in the preliminary stage.”

Schneider, who starred as Bo Due in The Dukes of Hazard, had just finished a stint on The Masked Singer when he tweeted:

“Mr. President, I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung. Your son too. Your response is..? Sincerely, John Schneider.”

The post has since been deleted and Schneider, a MAGA Republican, now says his tweet was misconstrued:

“Seriously, folks?” said Schneider to Deadline today in the second of two statements on his Biden remarks. “This is my final comment on this. I neither said nor implied any such thing. Despite headlines claiming otherwise, in my post, I absolutely did not call for an act of violence or threaten a U.S. president as many other celebrities have done in the past. I suggest you re-read my actual post and pay attention to the words before believing this nonsense.”

“It’s my position, which I am entitled to have, that some of our nations leaders in Washington have lost their way, and corruption runs rampant, both on our nation’s borders and abroad,” Schneider went on to say. “Transparency and accountability must happen in order for our constitutional republic to survive. There is no threat implied or otherwise in that statement.”

According to Deadline, “The law ‘prohibits knowing and willful threats to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm against’ the President, the VP, their predecessors, potential successors, and their respective ‘immediate family.’”

Read the Deadline story here.