The Miami lawyer who made headlines last week as the “nodding woman” sitting behind President Trump during his town hall event said critics have sent messages to her employees urging them to quit.
“Nobody can call an employer to fire me,” Mayra Joli told Fox News. “What they’re doing is calling my employees so they quit.”
“They start sending other [messages] saying, ‘I can’t believe you’re working for that person. I thought you were better,’” Joli said. “I am a fighter, but [my employees] have a private life. They aren’t used to this commotion.”
She has shared some of the critical messages she’s personally received on her Facebook page. Google Review of her law practice, Joli Law Firm, also has a few recent one-star reviews. However, Joli did not provide screenshots of critics asking her employees to quit.
Joli is an immigration lawyer in Miami who immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic in the 1990s. She told Fox News that she supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, but became a Trump supporter after looking into why Democrats and others “trashed” him so often.
“The more they trashed him, the more I wanted to find out more about him, and I’ve been supporting him since. The rest is history,” Joli told Fox News. “Donald Trump taught me that I cannot just be silent, and I have to think for myself.”
“This country gave me everything my country couldn’t give me, but I didn’t escape my country,” said Joli. “I left my country because the corruption was larger than the island itself.”
