Last month, Trent Wisecup, the chief of staff for Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) made waves when he was caught on camera calling an anti-war activist “un-American” and “not a citizen.” Wisecup followed it up by suggesting that support for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was also “un-American.” Politico reports that Wisecup has now taken a paid leave of absence, which he started “about a week after the encounter” with the activist. Watch the encounter:
Whether Wisecup ever returns to Knollenberg’s staff “is up to him,” according to Knollenberg field rep. Steven Betz.
UPDATE: The Detroit News reports that Wisecup is “on paid medical leave to deal with a mood-swing disorder” and “he recently checked himself into Beaumont Hospital in Oakland after sending out ‘weird and flat out kooky’ e-mails.”