‘Interrupting the euro trip content to say f*** charlie kirk,’ Lisa Schmidt wrote on social media
Nasdaq, one of the world’s largest stock exchanges, terminated a senior sustainability and climate adviser after she appeared to celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“Interrupting the euro trip content to say fuck charlie kirk,” Lisa Schmidt, the now-former Nasdaq official, wrote in a social media post that began circulating Thursday. “Rest in piss.”
Schmidt posted the comment on Instagram with a photo of herself flipping both middle fingers in a restaurant. The post was first shared online by Ryan Fournier, a conservative activist.
When asked for comment on Schmidt’s post, Nasdaq referred the Washington Free Beacon to a statement it posted on X confirming she had been fired.
“We are aware of social media posts by an employee regarding the shooting of Charlie Kirk that were a clear violation of our policy,” the company said. “Nasdaq has a zero-tolerance policy toward violence and any commentary that condones or celebrates violence. The employee in question has been terminated, effective immediately.”
It’s the latest example of a company firing an employee over comments cheering Kirk’s death. A number of school teachers, university professors, lawyers, and corporate officials have faced discipline for such behavior.
In one example, Bradley Dlatt, an official employed at the left-wing law firm Perkins Coie, was fired after stating that Kirk was “one of America’s leading spreaders of hatred, misinformation, and intolerance.” In another example, the University of Kentucky placed a security officer on leave after posting a quote attributed to early 20th-century Illinois lawmaker Clarence Darrow: “I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great satisfaction.”
And MSNBC fired political analyst Matthew Dowd after he appeared to blame Kirk for his own assassination during an appearance on the network Wednesday. “I always go back to ‘hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.’ You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.”
“We haven’t even begun to grapple with the fact that a huge portion of our society have been fully and dangerously radicalized by a closed circuit of radical left propaganda,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller wrote on X in response to a local Ohio city council member saying, “the world is a better place now” after Kirk’s assassination.
