A former Fox News producer handpicked by Donald Trump to organize the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations has been fired over an Instagram post about Charlie Kirk.
Ariel Abergel, 25, parachuted into the executive director role at America250, was removed from his position by the bipartisan Semiquincentennial Commission, which oversees planning for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence next year.
Abergel was fired after he “initiated a security breach of a commission social-media account, attempted to procure the resignations of multiple commissioners by misrepresenting himself as acting on behalf of congressional leadership, and engaged in multiple other serious and repeated breaches of authority and trust,” a spokesperson for America250 told The Wall St