Also in July, a Trump delegate said on the radio, “Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason,” referring to her handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi. (It’s worth noting, the Trump campaign said they “don’t agree” with the comment.)

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Now, a California county GOP official has sent tweets insinuating that Clinton should be executed.

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In response to a Twitter user asking where to obtain a “Republicans for Hillary” sign, two tweets came Wednesday from the Riverside County GOP official Twitter account.

Both depicted a bloodied hangman holding a noose, with the words “I’m Ready for Hillary” printed at the bottom. The second included a caption, referring to the “Republicans for Hillary” signs: “sorry they never arrived but this is pretty popular.”

Both tweets were deleted within hours, after the Riverside County GOP chairman, Scott Mann, became aware of them, according to the Press-Enterprise, a southern California newspaper.

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The party official who sent the tweets, identified as Nathan Miller, remains listed as a member of the executive committee for the Riverside County GOP. But he resigned from his job in the California state government on Thursday, according to his superior Russell Lowery.

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In an email to the Press-Enterprise, Mann initially downplayed the tweets: “That meme is nothing more than political satire. It simply expresses how Ms. Clinton seemingly has gotten away with every scandal and political flip-flop in her public life.”

But he soon changed sentiments, issuing a statement that he was “horrified” by the tweet, and that “it clearly has no place in American political dialogue.”

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The chairman of the county’s Democratic Party, Howard Katz, echoed the sentiment. “That is not political satire. That is a threat,” he told the Press-Enterprise.

Critics were quick to tie the tweet to the rhetoric coming from the Republican candidate himself. “It appears to be a furthering of the violence that has been projected outward by Trump,” Katz told the Press-Enterprise.

California Democratic Party spokesman Michael Soller agreed. “Donald Trump has opened the floodgates of hatred and intolerance, and until Republicans unify to condemn him we’ll see more of this,” he told the Press-Enterprise. “Trump is setting the standard for violent rhetoric at the top and that has to stop.”