Florida bans nurse who made comments about Trump's press secretary [View all]
A Florida labor and delivery nurse is banned from working in Florida following an expletive-filled social media post wishing President Donald Trump’s pregnant press secretary a painful child birth.
Effective immediately Lexie Lawler is no longer allowed to work as a nurse in the state, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday on social media. Lawler was fired from Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital earlier this month following a TikTok post about Karoline Leavitt.
“Making statements that wish pain and suffering on anyone, when those statements are directly related to one's practice, is an ethical red line we should not cross,” Uthmeier posted on social media.
A GoFundMe account set up to help Lawler with “employment and civil rights counsel” had raised a little more than $12,000 as of Jan. 29.
“When the Attorney General and Surgeon General of Florida involve themselves in matters affecting a single private citizen, that represents an extraordinary level of state involvement.,” according to the GoFundMe account. “Lexie did not commit malpractice, harm a patient, or have any prior complaints. She has ten years of nursing with zero disciplinary history. She spoke off the clock, as a private citizen. Following that speech, she lost her job, and the state is now moving to take her nursing license. We are now fighting not just for her livelihood, but for the principle that professional licenses should not be used in ways that chill or deter lawful speech.”
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2026/01/29/florida-nurse-cant-work-in-state-after-comments-about-trumps-press-secretary-lexie-leavitt-boca/88411774007/
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