The people who lost their jobs this election

THE election didn’t just end Hillary Clinton’s career. These are the ordinary people who lost their jobs for mixing business and politics.

President-elect Donald Trump smiles at the media at the clubhouse of Trump National Golf Club November 20, 2016 in Bedminster, New Jersey. Picture: Don Emmert/AFP

THE 2016 US presidential election didn’t just end Hillary Clinton’s career.

The shock victory of Republican Donald Trump is also proving dangerous for everyone else’s, with the polarising billionaire causing waves in workplaces across America.

Here are some of the casualties so far.

SACKED FOR KILL THREATS

Last week, the chief executive of a network security company resigned after posting expletive-laden comments on Facebook threatening to assassinate Mr Trump.

“I’m going to kill the president. Elect,” wrote PacketSled CEO Matthew Harrigan on the night of the election, adding he was “getting a sniper rifle and perching myself where it counts”.

“Find a bedroom in the whitehouse that suits you motherf******. I’ll find you,” he wrote. In one message he challenged the Secret Service to “bring it”, and in another he said, “In no uncertain terms, f*** you America. Seriously. F*** off.”

In a statement on the company’s website announcing his resignation, PacketSled said it took the comments seriously. “Once we were made aware of these comments, we immediately reported this information to the Secret Service and will co-operate fully with any inquiries,” the statement said.

“These comments do not reflect the views or opinions of PacketSled, its employees, investors or partners. Our CEO has been placed on administrative leave.”

He later told a local news station that he felt “stupid”, blaming the “absurd comments” on drunkenness and saying he had been forced to move his family after receiving death threats. He confirmed he had been interviewed by the Secret Service for two hours.

“It was [a] very, very dumb thing to do, and I regret it very much, and I would take it back if I could,” he said. “He is gonna be our president now and I hope he can do a great job for us. Anybody who took offence to what I said, I’m deeply apologetic.”

SACKED FOR PRAISING TRUMP

It comes at the same time a Texas TV reporter was sacked after she posted pro-Trump comments on her personal Facebook, in which she said was “happy and relieved” over his unexpected win.

In the post, which has since been deleted, Fox Houston’s Scarlett Fakhar said the country had been going “downhill” under Barack Obama, who had made the “entire county hate one another”.

She also said she could “barely sleep from how happy and relieved she was” after Mr Trump’s victory over Ms Clinton.

“Fox 26 Houston fired me today for expressing my conservative views on my private Facebook page,” Fakhar posted last week. “That is all I will say for you. But I want you to know how much your support has gotten me through this. God bless you all.”

The 25-year-old’s original post was criticised for stating crime statistics which showed the “number of African-Americans killed [by] one another far outweighs the number of them being killed by whites”.

“The media has made this a RACE issue when in reality the matter boils down to a difference in political philosophy,” Fakhar wrote last week.

“As a multiracial person myself, I never have been or never will be racist. I simply stated the fact that the media continues to misrepresent the factual realities that there is NO more white on black crime than there is black on black crime.”

A spokesman for Fox confirmed she was no longer with the station, but declined further comment when contacted by the New York Post.

SACKED FOR VOTING TRUMP

Meanwhile, an employee at a Louisiana masonry business claimed she was sacked for revealing she voted for Mr Trump when she came into work on the morning after the election.

In a video posted to Facebook, which soon went viral, Bradley Brick employee Rachael Jarrett said when she got to work everybody was “so p***** off about Trump being president, while I was excited because I voted for Trump, because I’m for America, I’m for choices, and I’m for people being able to make a decision ... outside of a liberal agenda”.

“After I said I was a proud American, my boss told me to, ‘Stop talking, shut up’,” she said. “He was like, ‘You don’t need to be talking about being pro-Trump up here.’ Why? So I can’t be a proud American today? If I don’t choose what you feel is right, then I don’t have a choice?

“Well let me tell you what, that’s exactly why I voted Trump. So guess what? I lost my job because I voted for Trump.”

In an interview with a local radio station, Ms Jarrett’s husband Chris said it was “outrageous”. “It’s not fair,” he said. “If you’re going to talk about one side of it you should be able to talk about both without any problems.”

But speaking to local TV station KTBS3, Bradley Brick manager Joey Gilchrist said it was not true. He said while he was legally prevented from discussing the issue in detail, Ms Jarrett was not let go over politics and was sent home to “cool off”.

“We are aware of the video. It is 100 per cent false,” Mr Gilchrist said. “I am an avid Trump supporter and voted for him enthusiastically.”

The company’s Facebook page has since been flooded with negative comments and one-star reviews since the story went viral.

SENT TO THE PSYCH WARD

Last week, a New Jersey university academic was taken away by police for psychiatric assessment after posting a series of tweets threatening to buy a gun and “[shoot] at random white people”.

Rutgers University professor Kevin Allred, who teaches women’s and gender studies and describes himself as a “queer feminist”, was placed on administrative leave and is no longer teaching, campus officials announced on Friday.

Allred was detained by NYPD officers and his Twitter temporarily suspended after he posted dozens of comments critical of Mr Trump, and asked, “Will the 2nd amendment be as cool when I buy a gun and start shooting at random white people or no ... ?”

On Tuesday, he tweeted, “NYPD just came to my house bc Rutgers Police told them I’m a threat based on political statements I’ve made on campus and on Twitter.”

He said he was forced to “undergo a psychiatric evaluation at the hospital ... tho I’m no under arrest technically”, afterwards claiming the incident was “proof positive Trump’s crackdown on free speech has absolutely begun”.

In a statement on Friday, university spokesman E.J. Miranda said: “We will not comment on the specifics of an individual personnel matter.

“As a general rule, however, when the university is presented with allegations of threats to public safety, we take those allegations very seriously and have an obligation to investigate. Mr. Allred has been placed on administrative leave and will therefore not be teaching.”

Allred claimed he had received threats via his Twitter account. “No one hurt me. White people are just generally awful thinking they run everything,” he tweeted on Sunday.