Former Trump appointee resigns from Trump-aligned group after racist comments

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Source: The HILL

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A former Trump administration appointee resigned from his position at the Trump-aligned America First Policies this week, after companies said they wouldn't contribute to the group because of his past racist comments, according to CNN.

In January, Carl Higbie resigned as chief of external affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service, which runs AmeriCorps, after racist, sexist and anti-Muslim comments from his past came to light.

Despite the revelations, he joined the nonprofit America First Polices in March as its director of advocacy. The group has reportedly raised $26 million to support President Trump's agenda.

But Higbie and other staffers' past remarks led three corporate donors - CVS Health, Southern Company and Dow Chemical - to announce earlier this week that they would no longer donate to the group.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/391428-former-trump-appointee-resigns-from-trump-aligned-group-after-racist-comments?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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1. Toxic Asshole now looking for Arby's online application . . . .

Know what they call it when you're so vile that even Shitstain's farm system won't take you?








JUSTICE.

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2. Whoa!

CVS Health, Southern Co. & Dow Chemical have been donating to this America First Policies organization?? That's good to know! Weasels, corporate weasels.

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12. Dow's creation, Agent Orange

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has caused death by a myriad of Agent Orange-related diseases for thousands of vets & their children. Not to mention the thousands of innocent Vietnames affected.

PNAC, America First Policies. The Right has risen stealthily and continually since Atwater's southern strategy gave us RN and s. agnew and other major political bigwigs in the Republikan Party and bodes ill for millions and millions.

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14. Read further....

But Higbie and other staffers' past remarks led three corporate donors - CVS Health, Southern Company and Dow Chemical - to announce earlier this week that they would no longer donate to the group.

"Comments made by employees of America First Policies that were reported after we made our contributions are unacceptable to us. We have zero tolerance for discriminatory actions or behaviors, and as such we will not be making contributions to this organization in the future," CVS said to CNN in a statement.

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3. I Didn't Know You Could Be More Trump Trash..

..He Must Be The Trash Juice At The Bottom Of The Bag.

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4. It's always awkward when one of those fellows forgets they're not wearing their hood.

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5. Ha Ha

Good one 👍

[Fred Sanders]

6. Will the companies still contribute 💵 now...is the PAC no longer racist, having hired a full blown

racist they must have been aware of?

[not fooled]

7. From Snopes

Origins of "America First":

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Jesus effin' christ, lookit all the racist nazis out there.

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8. The Hill is underplaying this - America First Policies policy advisor Andrade was explicitly Nazi

The Hill had published opinion pieces from him, so they are probably embarrassed by this - DU almost let this go unnoticed a month ago:

The Hill' Scrubs Articles By Pro-Trump Group Adviser After 'Mediaite' Report on Nazi Remarks

by Tamar Auber | 3:31 pm, May 10th, 2018

The Hill has dropped contributor Juan Pablo Andrade, also a policy advisor for America First Policies after Mediaite published a report on his vile comments praising Nazis.

“As soon as The Hill was made aware of this video and the comments made by Mr. Andrade, we are no longer publishing his opinion pieces and are removing his work from our site,” a spokesperson from The Hill told Mediaite.

Earlier on Wednesday, Mediate‘s Caleb Ecarma published a report that included a Snapchat video of Andrade making provocative remarks while attending a Turning Point USA conference near President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in December.

“The only thing the Nazis didn’t get right is they didn’t keep fucking going!” Andrade is heard exclaiming in the video filmed in a hotel room paid for by Turning Point USA.

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/the-hill-scrubs-articles-by-pro-trump-group-adviser-after-mediaite-report-on-nazi-remarks/

Andrade, aside from his work for the pro-Trump America First group, has quite the resume. Per his LinkedIn account, he worked on Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council, Trump’s National Diversity Coalition and the Trump campaign as a surrogate. He writes for The Hill as an opinion contributor and has shared his political opinions on NewsmaxTV, CNN Latino, and Univision. Additionally, he worked for TPUSA as the group’s Florida field director in 2015 and led the group’s informal Latino caucus in 2016, according to sources with direct knowledge of his involvement in the nonprofit.

He was even featured on the 2017 30 under 30s of Newsmax and Red Alert Politics, which are power lists compiling prominent young conservatives in America. Andrade made RAP‘s list in November 2017 — one month before he was recorded praising Nazis.

While it may seem odd that a political figure tied so closely to the Trump administration felt the freedom to endorse Nazi genocide on-camera, Andrade did so in distinctive company. Also in the hotel room was a close friend of Andrade’s, Cesar Subervi, an alt-right activist who participated in the Charlottesville white supremacist march and has been filmed with Richard Spencer.
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Another disturbing video posted to his Snapchat during TPUSA’s summit shows Subervi, who was also a student activist at Coastal Carolina University, saying it was “awesome” that someone who he thought was protesting the conference got run over by a car

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9. Frigging buttwipes

Should spend a month in the hole for the car remark.

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10. Every corporation should pull funding from any RW nutjob group.

Those RW organizations do nothing but promote hate.

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11. republican hate wankers are dragging America down

Glad this one got shown the door.

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13. He looks like a fuck head caught in the headlights.