The New York Post is fired an employee for what it calls a vile and reprehensible takeover of its website and social media accounts On the post Twitter feed and website there were tweets and fake news stories calling for the assassinations of President Biden and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez both are Democrats False tweets had New York's Republican candidate for governor Lee zeldin making violent statements about his opponent governor Kathy hochul and hurling racist slurs at New York mayor Eric Adams another false tweet had Texas governor Greg Abbott saying he would order border patrol to start slaughtering illegals The post did not say who the fired employee is or how that person managed to hack the paper's accounts I'm Ed Donahue