Tennessee man in jail with $2M bond because he posted a Trump meme on Facebook
Chris Graham

A Tennessee man has been in jail for a month, and will be there into December, at least, because a county sheriff 45 minutes away didn’t like a meme he posted on Facebook about Donald Trump.

Seriously, that is the alleged crime here.

Larry Bushart, 61, of Lexington, Tenn., posted a meme in a Facebook group on a thread referencing a local Charlie Kirk vigil 21 with a photo of Trump and a direct quote from the president sayihave to get over it,” which Trump said after a 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa, attributing the quote to “Donald Trump on the Perry High School mass shooting one day after,” and adding the message, “Seems relevant today.”

Hours later, officers showed up at Bushart’s front door with an arrest warrant from Perry County, Tenn., a 45-minute drive from Lexington, Tenn.

Bushart, a retired police and corrections officer and sheriff’s deputy, has been in jail since he was booked in the early-morning hours of Sept. 22 on a charge of “threatening mass violence at a school,” and is being held on a preposterous $2 million bond.

His lawyers asked a judge to reconsider the absurdly high bond, given the obvious, but prosecutors pushed back by asking for a delay, and the next hearing in the case is not until Dec. 4.

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