Washington – A U.S. official appointed by President Donald Trump has resigned after CNN posted excerpts of him making racist and Islamophobic comments on a radio show he used to host, the news network reported.
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Carl Higbie resigned from his post as external affairs chief at the Corporation for National and Community Service, according to a statement from CNCS spokeswoman Samantha Jo Warfield, CNN said.
Higbie, the CNCS – an agency that runs volunteer groups including AmeriCops, Senior Corps and the Social Innovation Fund – and the White House were not immediately available for comment.
CNN KFile, the network’s investigative reporting team, posted recordings of Higbie’s internet talk radio show “Sound of Freedom” from 2013 and 2014 in which he expresses his dislike of Muslims, black people and homosexuality.
“I just don’t like Muslim people. People always rip me a new one for that. ‘Carl, you’re racist, you can’t, you’re sexist.’ I’m like, Jesus Christ, I just don’t like Muslim people because their ideology sucks,” he says in one excerpt, describing Islam as “the ideology of a child molester”.
In another he tells Muslims: “Go back to your Muslim shithole and go crap in your hands and bang little boys on Thursday nights.”
Trump was accused by Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of repeatedly using the word “shithole” when speaking about African countries during a meeting about immigration last week at the White House, causing diplomatic outrage in many African countries.
Trump has denied he is a racist, telling a reporter on Sunday: “I’m the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”
I fit was solely anti islam then he is not wrong. We should all be anti Isalm. Islam is a religion of hate and they want us Americans and jews dead. Its morally correct and appropriate to hate a religion that wishes death upon you.. If he was anti blacks then I agree with CNN. But I suspect CNN just limps anti isalm with anti blacks without properly pointing out that one is well founded and one is not. I suspect he was never anti black unless they happen to be black muslims
This story omits a published account of things Higbie said about Blacks and others…such as:
“Black women think breeding is a form of work;”
“The black race has lax morals;”
He doesn’t “like” gay people;
He’s “bothered” that “…people call themselves African Americans but have never been to Africa,”
Soldiers suffering from PTSD have a “weak mind,” and that “…75% of those afflicted were either lying or milking it for Federal money;”
“Guns should be allowed on the southern border” so people can go there and “shoot people coming across the border illegally;”
“”This birth certificate thing”…”Sure, absolutely legitimate claim. You want to know if this, where was this guy born. That’s a legitimate question.”…”Obama’s birth certificate was ‘pixelated'”
A wonderful specimen of the kind of scum that can get appointed to the Trump administration.
what the Kenyan’s rebbe Jeremiah Wright said about white people is much worse.
Another racist appointee drained from Herr Trumpf’s swampf by the MEDIA. One more hoont out on his tuchas. Trumpf is next.
So how does he feel about Jews?