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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:28 PM Apr 2018

Suspended HHS official shared post saying 'our forefathers would have hung' Obama and Clinton

Source: The Hill

A Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official already on leave over comments insulting Islam and spreading conspiracy theories also reportedly shared an image last year saying that “our forefathers would have hung" former President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for treason.

Ximena Barreto, a deputy communications director at HHS, was placed on leave last week after Media Matters reported that she had in 2016 promoted the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory and said Islam was a “f---ing cult, not a religion.”

On Friday, CNN reported other posts from Barreto, including retweeting in 2017 an image of Obama calling him a “Muslim terrorist,” and tweeting that he is a “pansy and a traitor.”

Barreto also furthered the conspiracy theory that Clinton was behind the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, using the hashtags #KilledByTheDNC #HillaryBodyCount #ClintonBodyBags. Last May, she retweeted a photo of Obama and Clinton with the text “Fact: Our forefathers would have hung these two for treason…”

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Suspended HHS official shared post saying 'our forefathers would have hung' Obama and Clinton (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Apr 2018 OP
Faux News Will Hire Her SoCalMusicLover Apr 2018 #1
Treason lady is having your orange hair asshole turbinetree Apr 2018 #2
His or her forefathers probably would have, in pointy white hats. mahina Apr 2018 #3
A repug who's also a nazi freak. How unusual. rec, nt. Mc Mike Apr 2018 #4
Next thing,, nwduke Apr 2018 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author geretogo Apr 2018 #6
My advice: Never consider another human as sub-human. MGKrebs Apr 2018 #14
They would have hung most of the Nixon Administration, House of Roberts Apr 2018 #7
If Obama and Clinton are the standard threshold for hanging, then.... JHB Apr 2018 #24
If this jackass has any evidence of treason.. JohnnyRingo Apr 2018 #8
Here's her pin up photo from 2016 on freep.... marble falls Apr 2018 #9
Too much immigration. Good fucking grief. Oh, the irony. CottonBear Apr 2018 #11
Bat shit crazy. Do you know what her job with the HHS was? marble falls Apr 2018 #12
I have no idea. I have never heard of her before. CottonBear Apr 2018 #13
I bet she has minimal skillset for whatever it is. marble falls Apr 2018 #15
Deputy communications director! Her grasp of our language is seriously lacking. bettyellen Apr 2018 #29
I see a woman with her legs spread Cold War Spook Apr 2018 #17
She is from a shithole country muntrv Apr 2018 #27
But in his mind she really rocks a MAGA cap. marble falls Apr 2018 #28
I wonder if she's on leave with pay, or without pay. NBachers Apr 2018 #10
Projection Liberalagogo Apr 2018 #16
"illegals will be feed" Skittles Apr 2018 #18
Soylent Green is people! They_Live Apr 2018 #19
Yes they would have. meadowlander Apr 2018 #20
No, Ximena... jmowreader Apr 2018 #21
Our forefathers????? She's a fairly recent emigre from Colombia. Beacool Apr 2018 #22
" The last one in - Mopar151 Apr 2018 #25
Great saying, I had never heard it before. Beacool Apr 2018 #33
Deplorable lunasun Apr 2018 #23
We cant live in the same space as these vile racist scum. Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #26
Preferably a remote island with no means of communication... perhaps Gilligan's Island is available? InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2018 #31
Yours forefathers maybe but not ours. Chickensoup Apr 2018 #30
By "our forefathers" TheRealNorth Apr 2018 #32
her video.... marble falls Apr 2018 #34

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
2. Treason lady is having your orange hair asshole
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:31 PM
Apr 2018

speaking with Russian spies at a 2016 political convention and not telling the FBI or the DOJ...................


nwduke

(350 posts)
5. Next thing,,
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:34 PM
Apr 2018

Trump will promote here to Chief of Staff! Remember, your not born as a bigoted, hate filled moron, you are taught to be one!

Response to Mrs. Overall (Original post)

MGKrebs

(8,138 posts)
14. My advice: Never consider another human as sub-human.
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 07:03 PM
Apr 2018

As distasteful, nasty, horrible, disgusting, they might be, they are still humans and to deny that is the road to many bad things, condoning slavery among them.

House of Roberts

(5,175 posts)
7. They would have hung most of the Nixon Administration,
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 05:47 PM
Apr 2018

and then there wouldn't have been a Reagan Administration to worry about.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
24. If Obama and Clinton are the standard threshold for hanging, then....
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 11:43 AM
Apr 2018

...ALL Republican presidents since Eisenhower would be swinging, with their Vice Presidents joining them or at least getting tar and feathers.

JohnnyRingo

(18,635 posts)
8. If this jackass has any evidence of treason..
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:01 PM
Apr 2018

...it's not like he's 200 years too late. She can still present it because the standards haven't changed since then, and Sessions would love to see it. Of course she has nothing but his personal disdain.

I have a feeling her real issue has nothing to do with her concern for the country. She probably meant to say "lynched and burned at the stake", but felt constrained by political correctness. So yeah, treason.

marble falls

(57,097 posts)
9. Here's her pin up photo from 2016 on freep....
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:17 PM
Apr 2018


Ximena Barreto — Poway, California I was born in Bogota, Colombia and came to the country in 2006. It's a bad period for the States, too many homeless. America, it's not a safe place anymore. Too much immigration. If you do not have a visa in Mexico you go in jail, but not here in the States. Illegals will be feed and they'll give them a house, too. And with my taxes! Many companies moved to Mexico, the taxes there are lower than here and we are losing many job opportunities. Trump is a genius with money; he has more than 500 companies. He's saying what people want to say, but they are afraid to say!
2 posted on 9/16/2016, 10:28:41 AM by 11th_VA (It's all gonna change once Trump's president)

And another site:

http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/11/08/ladies-and-gentlemen-los-trumpitas_1527057

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CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
11. Too much immigration. Good fucking grief. Oh, the irony.
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:54 PM
Apr 2018

She’s one immigrant who should have been denied entry to the US. She is a mean and shitty human being.

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
13. I have no idea. I have never heard of her before.
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 07:00 PM
Apr 2018

.However, I am quite sure she is completely unqualified for her position.

meadowlander

(4,395 posts)
20. Yes they would have.
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 08:30 PM
Apr 2018

But then humanity decided about 80 years ago that lynching is an unacceptable way to deal with your irrational fears of people who are different than you.

Do try to keep up Ximena. It gets a bit boring for the rest of us having to rehash arguments that our great-grandparents already settled.

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
21. No, Ximena...
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 09:13 PM
Apr 2018

If the Founding Fathers were going to hang anyone for treason, it would be the entire Trump Administration - INCLUDING XIMENA BARRETO!

Beacool

(30,249 posts)
22. Our forefathers????? She's a fairly recent emigre from Colombia.
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 11:18 PM
Apr 2018

Just what this country needed, another deranged RW nut job.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
26. We cant live in the same space as these vile racist scum.
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 01:47 PM
Apr 2018

The UN should get together and find a place for them , their own country. Where they can hate and destroy all they want.

They wont be able to invent anything and if we dont sell them cars or oil they wont be able to pollute.

This is crazy..

TheRealNorth

(9,481 posts)
32. By "our forefathers"
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 04:14 PM
Apr 2018

she really meant "her" forefathers, like Francisco Pizzaro, Hernan Cortez, and Tomas de Torquemada

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