Vegas Paper: Someone Tried to Place Obituary Notice for Hillary

The Las Vegas Review-Journal revealed last night that someone potentially connected to the Bernie Sanders campaign tried to place an obituary for Hillary Clinton.

The paper explained a man named Don Schubert, who had one Sanders campaign sticker on his shirt and more on his car, filled out an obituary form for Clinton, listing today, February 20th, 2016, as the date of death. The paper notes that a

Now, apparently, this was some kind of really bad joke about Clinton losing the Nevada caucuses today. But the Review-Journal was so concerned about this, security officials contacted the Secret Service.

Schubert told the Review-Journal a Secret Service agent called him and said that he shouldn’t expect to be arrested.

[h/t The Hill]
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