Hollyweird don't like it when their stars go rogue. Good on you, John Schneider.

The former "Dukes of Hazzard" star (Bo Luke) has denied threatening the president in a now-deleted social media post, but a Secret Service spokesperson says the agency “investigates all threats.”

By Devan Coggan

Published on December 22, 2023

Earlier this week, Schneider was unmasked on the popular Fox singing competition show, performing Joe Cocker’s “You Are So Beautiful” while disguised as a donut. But the 63-year-old actor later made headlines after he shared a post on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, accusing the president of being a traitor and calling for him to be publicly executed.

“Mr. President, I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung,” Schneider wrote in the since-deleted post. “Your son too. Your response is..? Sincerely, John Schneider.”

Schneider has since walked back his comments, denying that he threatened the president. "Seriously, folks? This is my final comment on this,” he said in a statement provided to EW on Thursday. “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 nation’s leaders in Washington have lost their way, and corruption runs rampant, both on our nation's borders and abroad,” he continued. “Transparency and accountability must happen in order for our constitutional republic to survive. There is no threat implied or otherwise in that statement."

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Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider called for public hanging of Joe Biden

The deleted social media post, which also called for the execution of Hunter Biden, led some to wonder if Schneider could be charged

Actor John Schneider called for the executions of Joe Biden and the president’s son Hunter in a now-deleted social media post that drew ridicule and questions about whether he should be criminally charged.

Schneider, perhaps best known for his role as Bo Duke on the TV series Dukes of Hazzard as well as his recent runner-up finish on The Masked Singer, fired off the post on X at 2am local time on Thursday.

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

The comment was a reply to a post from Biden which said Donald Trump – who is facing more than 90 criminal charges as he seeks a second presidency in 2024 – “poses many threats to our country”.

“But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy,” Biden’s X post continued, in part. “If we lose that, we lose everything.”

Schneider’s response to Biden’s post drew thousands of replies before it was deleted.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/21/dukes-hazzard-actor-john-schneider-biden-execution