Fresno State professor who tweeted 'Trump must hang' will not return on campus for fall semester

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- An update now to a story Action News first brought you in April, Fresno State history professor Lars Maischak will not be teaching on campus this fall.

In February, Dr. Maischak sent two tweets to his 28 followers that seemed to support the assassination of President Donald Trump. He later apologized and deleted his account.

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University President Joseph Castro released a statement Friday night saying Maischak will convert two courses to an online format in order to meet his contractual obligation which ends in December of this year.