President Donald Trump’s nominee for a key State Department role deleted a trove of social media posts saying there was no such thing as “peaceful coexistence” with Democrats and that a political enemy should get the death penalty.
Trump’s pick for assistant secretary of state for international organization, Jeremy Carl, deleted at least 5,000 posts from his account on X, formerly Twitter, at some point before he received the nomination, CNN reported.
In the posts, he called the Democratic Party the “treason party” and said its members were “evil.”
Responding to a 2023 post about the COVID-19 pandemic from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, he wrote, “If the U.S. were a serious nation, Weingarten would be tried for crimes against America’s children an