RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie resigned Thursday [1-18-18] as chief of external affairs for the federal government’s volunteer service organization after a CNN KFile review of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments he made on the radio.
‘Effective immediately, Carl Higbie has resigned as Chief of External Affairs at CNCS,’ Samantha Jo Warfield, a spokesperson for CNCS, said in a statement.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Higbie’s resignation. Higbie did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Thursday.
In a tweet Friday morning, Higbie apologized for his comments.
‘I’m sorry. I’m not sorry that my words were published, I am sorry that I said them in 2013,’ he wrote. ‘Those words do not reflect who I am or what I stand for, I regret saying them. Last night I informed the WH that I was resigning so as not to distract from POTUS’ many success. #noexcuses’
Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and conservative media personality, was a surrogate for Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, appearing on cable news and serving as the spokesman for the Trump-aligned Great America PAC… According to the organization’s website, the projects are mainly focused on six priority areas: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families.”
-Andrew Kaczynski, “Trump appointee Carl Higbie resigns as public face of agency that runs AmeriCorps after KFile review of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments on the radio,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Jan. 19, 2018 09:38am