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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- An angel of a Staten Island Home Depot artisan cutting an anti-Trump hat went viral on the Internet Wednesday, arch to threats adjoin her life.
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Krystal Lake, 22, of St. George, was spotted cutting the arguable hat during her Sunday morning about-face at Home Depot, amid on Forest Avenue in Mariners Harbor.
The hat reads: "AMERICA WAS NEVER GREAT."
The phrasing, Lake said, was aggressive by presidential applicant Donald Trump's slogan, "Make America Great Again."
"The point of the hat was to say America needs alteration and improvement," Lake told the Advance. "I don't anticipate it's a absolute bulletin to say, "Let's attending to the past.'"
Lake said she awoke Wednesday morning to a battery of argument messages, tweets and buzz calls from accompany and co-workers allurement her if she had been blockage her amusing media accounts.
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"Everyone kept allurement me if I was on Facebook or Twitter, which I hadn't been," she said, "and afresh I saw how abounding bodies were administration [the picture] and that it was activity viral.
"I was candidly abashed -- I didn't apprehend any of this to happen."
Lake, a constant Staten Islander and apprentice at the College of Staten Island, said this was the aboriginal and alone time she had beat the hat to work, and that she was not reprimanded by any administrator for the accommodation to abrasion it.
When accomplished by the Advance on Wednesday afternoon, Home Depot agent Stephan Holmes said Lake's bulletin on her hat does not reflect the opinions of Home Depot.
"We acknowledge and accept the apropos of our loyal customers," he said. "In agreement of the message, our assembly are not acceptable to abrasion items that reflect political statements.
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"Unfortunately, no one on our administration aggregation saw her cutting the hat -- otherwise, they would accept had her abolish it immediately."
Lake, a Bernie Sanders supporter, said she has apparent added advisers cutting pro-Trump pins and pendants on their uniforms -- yet no one has anytime told them not to abrasion them.
"For the accomplished two months, there accept been a few bodies I assignment with cutting 'Vote for Trump' pins on their uniforms," she said. "But no one anytime says annihilation to them."
The agent added that administration of the Forest Avenue abundance will be "following up with the amount to ensure that it will not appear again."
Holmes did not animadversion on whether Lake's job was in jeopardy.
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When asked whether she intends to abrasion the hat again, Lake said, "Definitely."
"I feel it affronted a lot of bodies because a lot of Trump supporters alive in Staten Island," she said. "Trump is actual adventurous and in your face, but back addition abroad has a bulletin adjoin him, his supporters can't booty the criticisms."
Lake said she has accustomed dozens of afterlife threats on her amusing media accounts.
"People accept been adage absolutely racist things to me and that they're activity to appear and acquisition me," she said, "and that what I said is blameworthy and I abhorrence America -- but I don't abhorrence America.
"I apperceive there are a lot of opportunities here," Lake added. "I aloof ambition we would anguish about authoritative America bigger -- not 'great again.'"
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