Story highlights Pennsylvania state Sen. Daylin Leach was upset by a Trump comment

"Senator Leach is mad as hell about it," Leach spokesman says

(CNN) President Trump is known for firing off barbed tweets.

Now a Pennsylvania state legislator is using social media to attack the nation's chief executive, speaking to him directly and calling Trump a "fascist, loofa-faced, s***-gibbon!" on Twitter and Facebook.

Nope. Leach's outburst was inspired by a Politico article about a meeting Trump recently had with sheriffs from around the nation and a conversation during that meeting about asset forfeiture. That's a legal practice in which a law enforcement agency seizes money and property that may have been obtained through criminal activities.

According to the article, Rockwall County, Texas, Sheriff Harold Eavenson mentioned that a state senator in Texas wanted to change the asset forfeiture law. The change would require that a person be convicted of a crime before his or her assets could be seized.

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