MaddowBlog-Accused of being a white nationalist, Trump State Dept. nominee faces bipartisan pushback

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Jeremy Carl’s odds of success are poor and falling, but there’s a larger question hanging overhead: Why in the world did the president nominate this guy?

Accused of being a white nationalist, Trump State Dept. nominee faces bipartisan pushback

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— Mike Walker (@newnarrative.bsky.social) 2026-02-13T14:56:15.032Z

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And then there’s Jeremy Carl, Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of state for international organizations, who has a similarly offensive background, including publishing online commentary suggesting the Capitol rioters of Jan. 6, 2021, were treated worse than Black people in the South during the Jim Crow era. He’s similarly championed the “great replacement” conspiracy theory and condemned white people who celebrate Juneteenth.

“We are essentially moving,” he told Tucker Carlson in April 2024, “to what is effectively a postwhite America.”

In case that wasn’t quite enough, Carl has also criticized Jewish people for wanting to “relitigate” the Holocaust, while claiming that Jews are “overrepresented” in the ranks of American billionaires.

In a normal and healthy political environment, these revelations would have led the White House to pull the nomination. But Carl, still backed by Trump, nevertheless went to Capitol Hill on Thursday for his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing, where Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut asked him about his stated concerns regarding “the erasure of white culture.” To put it mildly, Carl struggled to defend his right-wing worldview.

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

— Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social) 2026-02-12T21:15:09.155Z

....After the hearing, one Senate Republican, Utah’s John Curtis, announced his opposition to the nominee.

“After reviewing his record and participating in today’s hearing, I do not believe that Jeremy Carl is the right person to represent our nation’s best interests in international forums, and I find his anti-Israel views and insensitive remarks about the Jewish people unbecoming of the position for which he has been nominated,” Curtis said in a statement.

While the Utahn is just one member, the GOP only has a one-vote advantage on the Foreign Relations Committee. In other words, if Curtis joins Democrats in opposing the nominee, he won’t have the votes to advance to the Senate floor.

Given the circumstances, Carl’s odds of being successfully confirmed are poor and falling, but there’s a larger question hanging overhead: Why in the world did the president nominate this guy, and why does Trump continue to support Carl’s nomination in light of everything we’ve learned about his indefensible worldview?

How did this racist asshole get nominated?

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1. "How did this racist asshole get nominated?" The question answers itself.

He was nominated because he's a racist asshole. In the Trump regime that's a feature, not a bug.

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2. Carl is a self-hating Jew like Miller

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3. For this thread

By all appearances, Jeremy Carl’s State Department nomination is in real trouble.

That’s good news, but it doesn’t negate the underlying question that the White House needs to answer: Why did Trump nominate this guy?
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— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-13T13:58:43.499Z

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4. According to this racist-"anti-white racism is the most pervasive form of racism today."

Link to tweet

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5. 'You're struggling': Trump nominee quails at demand to explain white nationalist rhetoric

This racist asshole is being called out for his white nationalism

'You're struggling': Trump nominee quails at demand to explain white nationalist rhetoric

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-02-13T12:40:05.649Z

https://www.rawstory.com/jeremy-carl

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) backed President Donald Trump's nominee for assistant secretary of state for international organizations into a corner during questioning this week, as he asked him to clarify what he meant by a series of pro-white nationalist posts claiming that "white identity" is under threat in America.

This comes after Jeremy Carl has deleted 5,000 social media posts, including posts claiming that Jan. 6 rioters were treated worse than Black Americans under Jim Crow, and that the head of a top teachers union should be executed.

"Tell me what you think about 'white identity' and what you think is being erased about 'white identity,'" said Murphy.....

"So you're worried about white culture, you're not worried about — you're now retreating to ethnic identity," said Murphy. "You don't speak about ethnic identity, you speak about white identity. So tell me the values that stitch together white identity. And make it different than Black identity."

"I would say that, the white churches, very different from the Black church in terms of its tone and style, on average," said Carl. "Um, foods, food ways could often be different. Um, music could be different."

"And you think those are being erased," said Murphy.

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6. Accused of? Dude just looks like he's a white nationalist.

And I would assume it's par for the course with these sick fucks.