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Cathy DiFilippo-Kiley had a job, a platform, and a sick obsession. Now she has none of the above.
The payroll administrator for Ontario’s Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board is out of a job after a TikTok video surfaced showing her fantasizing—in graphic detail—about the public, televised assassination of President Donald Trump. Not just wishing for it. Planning it. Describing it. Cheering for it.
“I know we’re all waiting for it to happen,” she said in the now-deleted video, “but here’s what I want to see occur when it happens… I think it should be an infliction like he has done to others… publicly, while maybe he’s on stage at a rally or a press conference… publicly and televised… I think the majority will be cheering. I know I will be cheering.”
She wasn’t done. “I don’t think it should be peaceful, compassionate, uh, quick and easy… I’m not sorry about it.”
This isn’t edgy political commentary. This is a school administrator—someone entrusted with the care of children—openly fantasizing about political violence and assassination. The Catholic school board did the right thing by terminating her employment. But the fact that someone this unhinged was working in education at all should terrify every parent.
When the video went viral and the backlash hit, DiFilippo-Kiley did what every exposed leftist does: she cried, apologized, and blamed everything but herself. “I let the influence of social media get the better of me,” she told local media through tears. “I became obsessed with it for the past year. It wasn’t good for my mental health.”
Notice what’s missing from that apology? Any acknowledgment that fantasizing about murdering a sitting president might be morally wrong. Any concern for the families who support Trump, who had to watch a school official describe their preferred leader being gunned down on live television. Any recognition that her words weren’t just “upsetting”—they were a window into a dark and violent mindset that has no place near children.
She’s “deeply remorseful” now that she’s unemployed. How convenient.
The real question isn’t whether this one woman deserved to lose her job. She did. The real question is: how many more Cathy DiFilippo-Kileys are embedded in our schools right now? How many teachers, administrators, and staff members are poisoning young minds with this level of hatred while parents remain in the dark?
The left loves to lecture about “toxic rhetoric” and “violent extremism.” But when one of their own posts a detailed fantasy about assassinating a Republican president, the media barely blinks. If a conservative school official had posted a video fantasizing about Joe Biden’s death, it would be national news for weeks. There would be congressional hearings. FBI investigations. Round-the-clock coverage about “right-wing extremism in education.”
But when it’s Trump? Crickets. Just another day in the double-standard media.
The school board made the right call. But parents shouldn’t need a viral TikTok to know who’s teaching their kids. The rot in our education system runs deeper than one fired administrator. And until parents demand accountability at every level, the Cathy DiFilippo-Kileys of the world will keep finding jobs in schools—and keep poisoning the next generation.
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