Trump Labor Aide Quits After Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts Surface

[brooklynite]

Source: Bloomberg

A recently appointed Trump Labor Department official with a history of advancing controversial conservative and faith-based causes in court has resigned after revelations that he wrote a 2016 Facebook post suggesting the Jewish-controlled media “protects their own.”

Four hours after Bloomberg Law requested comment from the White House and DOL about Leif Olson’s social media post, the department said he has resigned, without elaboration.

Olson, 43, started at the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division Aug. 12 as a senior policy adviser, after being cleared for the job by the White House. He was part of a team of political appointees working to finish a series of deregulatory actions that are pivotal to the White House employment agenda. They include rules that would narrow corporations’ shared liability with affiliated companies and clarify time-and-a-half overtime pay calculations.

Olson, an unsuccessful GOP candidate in 2012 for a Texas district court judgeship, fired off a series of late-night posts on his personal Facebook page three years ago that started as a sarcastic quip about former House Speaker Paul Ryan’s blowout primary victory. They then devolved into an exchange referencing two anti-Semitic tropes: that Jews control the media and that they look out for members of their own faith.

Read more: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-labor-aide-quits-after-anti-semitic-facebook-posts-surface

[Botany]

1. And Trump complains about the 4 freshmen women being anti-semitic but he has had some ....

.... very anti-semitic people on his staff. Gorka who along with his mother is a holocaust
denier and proudly wears neo nazi pins and Steve Bannon who is on record as saying San
Francisco is "too jew-y" and now Mr. Olson.

[Video Drone]

3. And let's not forget The "Man" Himself

22 Aug 2019, MSNBC

[Botany]

6. And don't forget the Squirrel Hill Synagogue shooting that was inspired in part by Trump's

rhetoric about "internationalists" (aka rich jews) funding the migrant caravan from
central America.

[keithbvadu2]

7. and Trump's supporters marching in Charlottesville with their anti-Jewish slogans.

and Trump's supporters marching in Charlottesville with their anti-Jewish slogans.

[tanyev]

2. Aug. 12. Leif, we hardly knew ye.

[yellowcanine]

4. "cleared for the job by the White House"

Ah yes, another product of the vaunted Trump vetting operation.

[eggplant]

5. That's like two Scaramuccis, isn't it?

[JudyM]

8. Kudos to Bloomberg Law. All hands on deck needed all.the.time. for this administration.

[Scarsdale]

9. Who expects this WH to vet

their own? Had tRump been properly vetted, we would never have had this lard-assed orange fake in the WH. The gop scrape the bottom of the barrel for their "representatives" The slimier they are, the more the gop accepts them.

[B Stieg]

10. Qui se ressemble s'assemble (one more time)

Boy, this racist, sexist, ableist, misogynistic, homophobic, anti-Semitic crew sure sticks together...

[brush]

11. Well he didn't last very long, even on the Scaramucci scale.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Not everyone agrees.

So @bloomberglaw published an extremely dim-witted and/or dishonest piece interpreting an obviously sarcastic attack on racists as actually racist. Couldn’t have come out any better for the alt-right if they had drafted it.

Link to tweet

[Grins]

13. All of 18-days...!

...and that isn’t even the record for this mis-administration!!!

[Karadeniz]

14. I don't recall Mitt being harassed for Mormons flocking together.