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		</div><p>A US politician who said on Facebook she hoped Donald Trump would be assassinated has apologised publicly to the president and his family, calling the online posting &#8220;a mistake&#8221;.</p>
<p>But Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a black Democrat, said she has no plans to resign as some Republicans and Democrats in Missouri have insisted since Thursday&#8217;s post in which she wrote: <i>&#8220;I hope Trump is assassinated!&#8221;<br />
Governor Eric Greitens and Lieutenant Governor Mike Parson, both Republicans, said on Friday that state senators should oust her.</p>
<p>&#8220;I made a mistake, and I&#8217;m owning up to it. And I&#8217;m not ever going to make a mistake like that again,&#8221;</i> Ms Chappelle-Nadal, who later deleted the post from her personal Facebook page, said on Sunday at a church in Ferguson.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I have learned my lesson. My judge and my jury is my Lord, Jesus Christ.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>She also apologised to Missouri residents and her statehouse colleagues.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I will continue to fight for issues that are really, really important,&#8221;</i> said Ms Chappelle-Nadal, who was a prominent voice during the protests in Ferguson after the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;God chooses people for different things, to send different messages.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>She had asked media outlets to not publish the news conference&#8217;s location beforehand because she had received death threats since the post.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;President Trump, I apologise to you and your family,&#8221;</i> she added. She walked out and did not take any questions after delivering her three-minute statement.</p>
<p>Ms Chappelle-Nadal&#8217;s post was in response to one that suggested Vice President Mike Pence would try to have Mr Trump removed from office.</p>
<p>She has said she made the comment out of frustration with the Republican president&#8217;s response to the recent white nationalist rally and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, for which Mr Trump said &#8220;both sides&#8221; shared some blame.</p>
<p>Ms Chappelle-Nadal was later questioned by the US secret service as part of its investigation into her remarks.</p>
<p>She has told The Associated Press that she let the law enforcement agency know she &#8220;had no intentions of hurting anyone or trying to get other people to hurt anyone at all&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Parson has said he will ask senators to remove Ms Chappelle-Nadal, who lives in the St Louis suburb of University City, from office if she does not resign by September 13.</p>
<p>The Missouri constitution says a politician can be expelled upon a two-thirds vote of the elected members of a chamber. But that has not occurred in recent decades, and it is unclear exactly how it would happen.</p>
<p>Before Sunday&#8217;s apology, Ms Chappelle-Nadal had only called the Facebook post &#8220;improper&#8221; and claimed she was being targeted by the governor and other officeholders because of political expediency or grudges.</p>
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