A Florida nurse has been fired after posting a viral social media video wishing for President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt to be seriously injured during childbirth.
The nurse, identified as Lexie Lawler, was let go from Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital after recording herself in a TikTok video saying she hopes Leavitt suffers a fourth-degree tear during childbirth with long-term complications.
Leavitt is currently expecting her second baby with husband Nicholas Riccio.
“As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear,” Lawler said in the since-deleted TikTok, according to multiple outlets. “I hope that you fucking rip from bow to stern and never shit normally again, you cunt.”
A spokesperson for Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital later confirmed Lawler’s termination in a Jan. 23 statement to local news outlets WPTV and CBS 12.
