Trump’s new State Dept. nominee said lesbian union leader should get death penalty

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Jeremy Carl, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, deleted thousands of social media posts before his nomination. One was a May 2023 post calling for the killing of Randi Weingarten, the lesbian president of the American Federation of Teachers, a major American labor union representing over 1.8 million professionals in education, healthcare, and public service.

In a May 2023 post, Carl wrote, “If the U.S. were a serious nation, Weingarten would be tried for crimes against America’s children and would get the death penalty.”

Right-wing critics hate Weingarten (who is a Democrat) for supporting school closures during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, opposing the use of public taxpayer money for private “school choice” voucher programs, and speaking out against so-called “parents’ rights” groups that largely push anti-LGBTQ+ school policies.

Carl deleted this and thousands of other posts, including numerous racist posts saying that white people had “already surrendered” to Black people and ones that pushed the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, an antisemitic and white supremacist conspiracy theory that claims that a cabal of powerful Jewish people want to “replace” white Americans and Westerners with non-white immigrants and people of color (especially Black people and Muslims) to fundamentally change the nation’s racial makeup and political culture.

In a recent Senate hearing, Carl said he believes people of color are “erasing white culture,” but he struggled to define what white culture is. Carl’s nomination may fail, as Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) said he’d vote against him because of his long history of anti-semitic comments.