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Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie resigned Thursday as chief of external affairs for the federal government's volunteer service organization after a CNN KFile review of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments he made on the radio.
"Effective immediately, Carl Higbie has resigned as Chief of External Affairs at CNCS," Samantha Jo Warfield, a spokesperson for CNCS, said in a statement.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Higbie's resignation.
Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and conservative media personality, was a surrogate for Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, appearing on cable news and serving as the spokesman for the Trump-aligned Great America PAC. He was appointed to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) in 2017 to direct the public image and messaging of the federal department that manages millions of Americans in volunteer services like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps.
CNCS, formed in 1993, connects volunteers with service opportunities, often in the neediest areas across the country. According to the organization's website, the projects are mainly focused on six priority areas: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/politics/kfile-carl-higbie-on-the-radio/index.html
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)He is dishonorable in every way.
PTSD is the result of being subjected to violence and uncertainty in hostile situations.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)"Racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT.... comments he made on the radio."
When the day comes such folk do not resign is the day the republic is lost.
Every one of Shitler's appointees should be looked into...again and again if replaced.
See why Shitler hates a Free Press...his darkness is revealed?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)and find much better candidates than any of his appointees. That is the thing to remember: he had to be looking for these assholes.