Prosecutor posted ‘disgust’ for Trump supporters, Indiana officials say. She’s fired
A deputy prosecutor’s public reaction to the presidential election results cost the woman her job, Indiana officials said.
“If you voted for Trump, please unfriend me,” Jordan Stroh (Ouellette), an attorney for the Hancock County Prosecutor’s Office in Greenfield, said in a post shared with McClatchy News. “You disgust me and clearly don’t respect me or other human beings.”
She later reposted a quote from author A.R. Moxon that county prosecutor Brent E. Eaton, a Republican, said “seemed to clearly be referring to the election and voters who supported the now President-Elect,” according to Stroh’s termination letter shared with McClatchy News.
Moxon’s post, according to Eaton, had “the clear intent to communicate a belief that those who voted for the now President-Elect were NAZIS in the same manner as those who were members of one of the twentieth centuries most homicidal, anti-semitic, genocidal death cults.”
Stroh was fired Nov. 12, just six days after Donald Trump was elected president. McClatchy News reached out to Stroh for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
According to Eaton, her social media posts indicated that she could not remain impartial.
“It is impossible for the public, your colleagues, and law enforcement to have confidence in you and believe that you are going to make decisions based only on the law and facts when you have publicly referred to large parts of the community in the manner referenced above on your social media account.”
Eaton clarified in his letter to Stroh that he would have had the same response to a staff member posting opinions of Vice President Kamala Harris.
In her termination letter, Eaton told Stroh, “As a Prosecutor, you are charged with being a minister of justice. Unfortunately, the decisions you made to post content to your social media page call into question your ability to be a fair and impartial minister of justice equitably, to all that you serve in this community.”
He said that those working in the prosecutor’s office must demonstrate that they can treat people equally, regardless of who they voted for. He referenced “political discrimination” in an email to staff, saying that it will not be tolerated.
“All people who interact with us in any way 100% deserve to know that they will be treated fairly, honestly, and impartially by our team without regard to their political preference, ethnicity, religious preference, or sexual or gender identity,” the prosecutor said in the email.
Greenfield is about a 25-mile drive east from Indianapolis.
This story was originally published November 18, 2024 at 12:23 PM with the headline "Prosecutor posted ‘disgust’ for Trump supporters, Indiana officials say. She’s fired."
