{"id":2307008,"date":"2024-07-23T17:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utah-democrat-fielding-calls-for-resignation-after-saying-he-preferred-a-dead-body-to-trump-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T17:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:52:57","slug":"utah-democrat-fielding-calls-for-resignation-after-saying-he-preferred-a-dead-body-to-trump-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utah-democrat-fielding-calls-for-resignation-after-saying-he-preferred-a-dead-body-to-trump-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Democrat fielding calls for resignation after saying he preferred a dead body to Trump &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futah-democrat-fielding-calls-for-resignation-after-saying-he-preferred-a-dead-body-to-trump-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2307008&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Salt\u2063 Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill faced criticism from Utah Republicans after making a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-democrats-caught-comparing-climate-change-to-9-11\/\" title=\"New York Democrats Caught Comparing Climate Change to 9\/11\">social media post criticizing<\/a> former President Donald \u2064Trump. In the\u200c post, Gill stated that a dead body would be more competent than Trump to be president. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dem-calls-for-trump-to-be-eliminated-after-condemning-dangerous-rhetoric\/\" title=\"House Dem Calls For Trump To Be \u2018Eliminated\u2019 \u2014 After Condemning \u2018Dangerous\u2019 Rhetoric\">comment sparked backlash<\/a>,\u2062 especially since Trump had survived an assassination attempt just days earlier. Utah Governor Spencer Cox\u200b called Gill&#8217;s comment a new low and disgusting, prompting \u2064a top Utah Republican to call for \u200cGill&#8217;s resignation. Gill has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-deletes-president-trumps-tweets-threatens-permanent-suspension\/\" title=\"Twitter deletes President Trump\u2019s tweets, threatens permanent suspension\">faced controversy<\/a> in the past for \u2062his decisions regarding prosecuting accused\u200b rapists, \u2063enforcing abortion \u200brestrictions, and advocating for police reform. Despite backtracking on his comment, Gill&#8217;s actions have raised concerns about his ability to perform his duties fairly.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Utah Democrat fielding calls for resignation after saying he preferred a dead body to Trump<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1710695\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill is facing scathing criticism from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Utah<\/a> Republicans after he made a provocative social media post criticizing former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Truly, a dead body is more competent than Trump to be president,&rdquo; Gill <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SimGillDA\/status\/1814862957010166081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>posted<\/a> to X on Saturday. &ldquo;It would do exponentially less harm to our democratic republic and honor our ideals more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gill&rsquo;s comments immediately sparked backlash from critics who viewed his words as unnecessarily inflammatory, given that Trump survived an assassination attempt seven days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A new low for Sim following a literal assassination attempt,&rdquo; Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpencerJCox\/status\/1815087927602688503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>responded<\/a> on X. &ldquo;Disgusting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A new low for Sim following a literal assassination attempt. Disgusting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jnnLxLn0zL\">https:\/\/t.co\/jnnLxLn0zL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Spencer Cox (@SpencerJCox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpencerJCox\/status\/1815087927602688503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On Monday, a&nbsp;top Utah Republican called on Gill to step down as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-cultural-change-coming-to-america\/\" title=\"Radical Cultural Change Coming to America?\">district attorney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Utahns deserve better &ndash; [Sim Gill] needs to resign,&rdquo; House Speaker Mike Schultz (R-UT) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mschultz_12\/status\/1815579931180761465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a> in a statement posted to X.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The toxic and hate-filled partisanship Sim Gill demonstrated in his post about the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, makes rational people question Sim Gill&rsquo;s ability to fairly execute his duties to the people of Salt Lake County,&rdquo; Schultz added.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic district attorney has courted controversy before for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/2018\/10\/16\/four-women-say-salt-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>declining to prosecute<\/a> accused rapists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/may\/15\/sim-gill-salt-lake-county-da-refuses-enforce-utah-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>refusing to enforce<\/a> the state&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-introduces-bill-allowing-fathers-to-prevent-an-abortion\/\" title=\"Tennessee Introduces Bill Allowing Fathers To Prevent An Abortion\">abortion restrictions<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/2020\/06\/28\/only-utah-cops-faced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>pushing<\/a> for progressive police reforms in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n<p>Gill has backtracked his latest blunder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2024\/07\/23\/utah-republican-lawmakers-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>telling<\/a> the <em>Salt Lake Tribune<\/em> that it was not his intent to stir division.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I could have chosen a different word,&rdquo; Gill told the newspaper. &ldquo;I can see why people would be offended. I regret that I offended some people and they took away something I was not implying. That was not my intent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">District Attorney Sim Gill speaks during a news conference on Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo\/Rick Bowmer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;My sentiment is that anybody, even an inanimate object, would do less harm to the country,&rdquo; the district attorney added.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Fraternal Order of Police has also criticized Gill&rsquo;s comment, saying it &ldquo;condone[d] the assassination attempt on former President Trump.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Gills on Monday, the law enforcement group called on him to apologize.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As an organization that represents over 5,200 police officers, we call upon you, at minimum, to issue a formal public apology to former President Trump for your biased and senseless statement,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mschultz_12\/status\/1815579931180761465\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>letter<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1710695\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1710695\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt\u2063 Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill faced criticism from Utah Republicans after making a social media post criticizing former President Donald \u2064Trump. 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This comment sparked backlash,\u2062 especially since Trump had survived an assassination attempt just days &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2307009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Sim-Gill-Utah.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35934,6522,35933],"class_list":["post-2307008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-controversial-statement","tag-resignation","tag-utah-democrat"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Sim-Gill-Utah.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}