Supporters raise over $70,000 for the 50yrs old cyclist woman who gave Donald Trump "middle finger" as his motorcade drove past (Details, pics)

Supporters raise more than $57,000 for woman cyclist fired for giving Donald Trump the finger as his motorcade drove past. Supporters of a woman who was forced to resign after flipping off President Trump's motorcade have raised more than $57,000 for her.

The 50-year-old mother-of-two told Megyn Kelly in an interview last week about how all her frustrations with the current administration boiled over when she saw the president passing on the way to play golf.

Juli Briskman was riding her bike near her home in Sterling, Virginia late last month when the President's motorcade passed. Giving him the middle finger was the 'only way I had to give him the message that I wanted to give him'.

A photographer in the president's press pool captured the moment and the picture quickly went viral.

But for Briskman, the lighthearted form of protest ended with her losing her job at Akima, a government-contracted marketing firm, two days later.

The single mother, who has two teenage children at home, claims that she was pulled aside at work and told she violated her company's social media policy by posting the image on her Facebook and Twitter. She was then sent packing.

Luckily Briskman won't have to worry about paying the bills.A man named Rob Mello started a Go Fund Me campaign to raise money for Briskman, and the fun has already raised more than $57,000 as of Monday.

'Juli Briskman is an inspiration to us all. This week we learned that she was fired from her employer for exercising her first amendment rights,' Mello wrote on the page. 'You can show your support by donating here.

'Meanwhile, Briskman continues to fight her forced resignation from Akima.

Briskman said she is looking to file a lawsuit against Akima. That case could be bolstered by Briskman's claim that one male employee posted a highly offensive comment on Facebook just a few months prior to her violation.

She is currently working with attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Briskman flagged the post to higher-ups in the company when the man commented that an individual who was showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement was a 'f****** Libtard a******. 'She was aware of the comment because monitoring Facebook was one of the tasks that fell under her purview at the company.

That man was able to keep his senior director position at the firm after editing his post said Briskman.  Her Halloween-day ousting came eight months into her employment at the agency.

She described her position at the firm in her Linked In profile, where she identifies herself as a marketing specialist.'As a member of an internal, agency-style marketing team that supports more than 35 government contracting companies, I wear many hats from writer to marketer to WordPress editor and social media strategist,' writes Briskman.'

As part of Akima's shared services, our team is responsible for web sites, marketing collateral, events, public relations materials and more.'As for why she got so enraged, Briskman said that even she was surprised, while explaining the limited extent of her activism prior to motorcadegate.

'I think I gave money for clean water once,' said Briskman, who also got semi-involved in the Woman's Day protest by standing outside the CIA with a 'Not My President' sign.

As for her reason for all that anger towards President Trump, Briskman quite bluntly stated that his love of leisure has been filling her with a growing rage.

'Here’s what was going through my head that day,' said Briskman of her bike ride bird.

'"Really? You’re golfing again?"'

That realization came during a bike ride where Briskman had been thinking about the devastation in Puerto Rico, recently introduced immigration bans by the current administration and the mass shooing in Las Vegas which had claimed the lives of over 50 people just a few days earlier.