Secret Service 'aware' of Jemele Hill's Trump assassination tweet 

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The Secret Service has been informed of a tweet about President Trump by former ESPN personality Jemele Hill that referenced Malcolm X's assassination.

“While the Secret Service is aware of the subject’s comments, we cannot confirm or comment on the absence or existence of specific investigations. We can say, however, the Secret Service investigates all threats related to our protectees," the agency told the Washington Examiner via email.

Hill, who now works for the Atlantic, made the allusion to the minister and activist's violent death in 1965 in reply to another Twitter user. That user had joked that liberal firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., should have shouted, "Whose mans is this?" during Tuesday night's State of the Union address. That phrase, in popular culture, has come to denote a boring person.

“Nah, she gotta yell: GETCHO HAND OUT MY POCKET," Hill responded in a since-deleted tweet.

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