Trump nominee for top diplomatic post faces scrutiny over ‘white supremacist’ views

Donald Trump’s nominee Jeremy Carl will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday for the post of assistant secretary of state for international organisations, a role that manages relations with the United Nations and its agencies. Carl, from Montana, served as deputy assistant secretary of the interior during Trump’s first term and is now a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, focusing on immigration, multiculturalism and nationalism.

A former State Department official warned that Carl has championed "white supremacist, racist, antisemitic and homophobic views," and Senate Democrats plan tough questioning over a long history of inflammatory remarks, some since deleted. He has expressed sympathy for the "great replacement" theory, writing "Imagine thinking the Great replacement is a conspiracy theory" in September 2021, and in 2021 responded to comments by then-congresswoman Cori Bush: "There is no ‘peaceful coexistence’ we are going to have when our opposition is led by people like this.

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