A North Carolina college professor and state House candidate was fired from his job after being recorded calling Charlie Kirk a “racist piece of s—” last week.

Chris Schulte had taught psychology at Coastal Carolina Community College since 2008, but he was fired on Thursday after a student recorded audio of a rant in which he disparaged both Kirk and Turning Point USA.

“Did he deserve to die? No. But he was a racist piece of s—. And Turning Point USA is a racist piece of s— organization,” Schulte could be heard saying in an audio recording.

Schulte made no apologies for his comments in a public statement after his firing. Schulte is a Democratic candidate for North Carolina’s State House.

“Campus security had to escort me to my car because threats were made against me at my workplace after I spoke out for academic freedom and called out racism and censorship where I saw it,” Schulte wrote. “I spoke passionately on that topic because I care deeply about this country and I’m concerned about protecting constitutional freedoms, especially the First Amendment, that defines it. Today’s events only reinforced why those protections matter.”

“In an attempt to bring awareness to the censorship of faculty happening at UNC-Chapel Hill with secret recordings, I was secretly recorded by a student,” he wrote. “It is a sad statement about our country right now that my comments would elicit threats not just on my career, but also my life.”

Schulte is one of many academics across the nation who found themselves in hot water over a litany of crude commentary celebrating the TPUSA founder’s death last year.

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Many received short disciplinary stints and are now back in their roles.

On Dec. 30, Austin Peay State University in Tennessee sent a message to community members notifying them that Darren Michael, an associate professor of acting and directing, had been reinstated. Michael was fired on Sept. 12, two days after Kirk’s assassination. He shared a post with a 2023 remark by Kirk that gun deaths were “unfortunately worth it” to protect the Second Amendment.

On top of being rehired, Austin Peay acknowledged that it had not followed its own policies for terminating tenured faculty, and paid Michael a $500,000 settlement, according to local reports.

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At the University of South Dakota, art professor Michael Hook was fired for slamming Kirk in the wake of his assassination.

“OK. I don’t give a flying f— about this Kirk person,” Hook said hours after Kirk was killed, according to Inside Hire Ed. “I’m sorry for his family that he was a hate spreading Nazi and got killed. I’m sure they deserved better. Maybe good people could now enter their lives. But geez, where was all this concern when the politicians in Minnesota were shot? And the school shootings? And Capitol Police? I have no thoughts or prayers for this hate spreading Nazi. A shrug, maybe.”

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Hook sued the school after his termination, and on Sept. 26, a federal judge ordered him to be temporarily reinstated while the legal proceedings continued, deciding that he had a reasonable chance of prevailing in his suit.

Shortly thereafter, the South Dakota Board of Regents agreed not to fire Hook, and he dropped his lawsuit, The Argus Leader reported.

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A Florida high school teacher is accused of engaging in repeated sexual encounters with a student who had moved into her home, and plying the teen with alcohol, according to an arrest affidavit.

Mackenzie McLean, a 49-year-old economics teacher at Crooms Academy in Sanford, was arrested Tuesday on two counts of sex offense by an authority figure and one count of distribution of a controlled substance.

The male student, a senior who was friends with McLean’s daughter, moved into the teacher’s home around March 2024 after he was kicked out of his own home, according to the affidavit.

The victim said that on one occasion when he was playing video games with McLean and her daughter in a bedroom, McLean gave him 12 shots of gin, causing him to become severely intoxicated, according to the affidavit. She then allegedly told her daughter to leave the room before engaging him in sexual activity.

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It “went on for a very short time,” the student told authorities, alleging that he “pushed McLean off him and told her it was wrong.”

The student lived with McLean for nine months, though he estimated that he was sexually abused “approximately five to ten times” in the two months when she was still his teacher.

As the student told authorities about the alleged sexual encounters, detectives noted in the affidavit that he appeared “quite emotional” and started crying with visible tears.

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The student said he allowed the sex to continue because he was afraid that if he stopped, he would no longer have a place to live or food to eat.

The student also brought a friend to speak with detectives who said she had also spent time at McLean’s home, sometimes sleeping over. The teen girl alleged that McLean provided her with alcohol and Adderall, a schedule two controlled substance.

The friend said that she witnessed McLean ask the student to sleep in bed with him, though she did not have direct knowledge of any sexual activity until sometime later, according to the affidavit.

Text messages between McLean and the teen girl show that McLean claimed she knew the sexual relationship with the student was wrong, though she alleged that the student initiated the sex.

“I’m well aware that I’m the adultier adult and so I intentionally never initiated anything because I didn’t want to make him feel any kind of way,” reads one alleged message from McLean.

McLean was placed on administrative leave Tuesday morning after spending nearly 25 years working in the district, a Seminole County Public Schools spokesperson told FOX35 Orlando in a statement.

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“Any allegations of misconduct by our staff will be taken seriously and handled quickly,” the statement said. “The safety of our students and staff is our highest priority, and any type of behavior that jeopardizes that safety will not be tolerated in Seminole County Public Schools.”

McLean is being held on a $35,000 bond. Her next court date is scheduled for March 31.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday blamed what he called “venom” from the political left following a deadly incident at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

“Two would-be assassins dead, one in jail for life, and this venom coming from the other side…” Bessent said during “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“They are normalizing this violence. It’s got to stop.”

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Bessent pointed to a campaign commercial from an Illinois Democratic Senate candidate in which Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton showcased people declaring, “F— Trump, vote Juliana,” urging that the “profane” video be taken down.

“We don’t know whether this person was a mastermind, unhinged or what, but they are normalizing this… violence,” he said. 

Fox News Digital reached out to Stratton’s office for comment and did not immediately hear back. 

Bessent’s comments came as authorities investigate a security incident at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, where a young male suspect was shot and killed early Sunday.

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Sheriff Ric Bradshaw confirmed to Fox News that the suspect was 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin of North Carolina.

The president was in Washington, D.C., at the time of the incident. No Secret Service agents or law enforcement personnel were injured.

“I want to congratulate Sean Curran and the Secret Service for protecting the president and his family,” Bessent said, adding that Trump and his family are safe.

The Treasury secretary declined to discuss potential changes to the president’s security posture at Mar-a-Lago following the incident but insisted that protections around Trump are “as strong as it’s ever been.”

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Fox News’ Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.