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Before William C. Bradford was appointed by the Trump administration to run the Energy Departments Office of Indian Energy, he tweeted a slew of disparaging remarks about the real and imagined ethnic, religious and gender identities of former president Barack Obama, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, TV news host Megyn Kelly and Japanese Americans during World War II.
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The Trump officials tweets came before he joined the administration and include a response to a story about Zuckerberg, Facebooks chief executive, urging Iowans to vote against Trump ahead of a 2016 presidential caucus there, in which Bradford said: Who is this little arrogant self-hating Jew to tell anyone for whom to vote?
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Before joining DOE, he sent tweets more directly relevant to the departments work. In December, after Trumps election, Bradford wrote: Soon, climate change cultists will be pitied as the nuts they always were. Under the Obama administration, the Energy Department emphasized developing and promoting relatively carbon-neutral forms of energy, such as nuclear, solar and wind power.
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This would not be the first time Bradford courted controversy except that it previously concerned a lengthy, 95-page law journal article rather than several short, 140-character-or-fewer tweets. In 2015, he resigned from his post at West Point after writing an academic paper arguing the United States should threaten to destroy Muslim holy sites in war even if it means great destruction, innumerable enemy casualties, and civilian collateral damage.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/06/22/how-else-can-a-kenyan-creampuff-get-ahead-is-just-one-of-the-disturbing-tweets-sent-by-this-trump-energy-department-agency-head/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_energy-tweets-840pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.ea6dd6fcadb9
He also supported the internment of Japanese Americans in WW2, and tweeted, just last December:
"I think Obama was given his mission in Tehran long ago, and it suits him just fine. How else can a Kenyan creampuff get ahead?"
This man might be even worse than Steve Bannon.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)furtheradu
(1,865 posts)Heart LESS, 2 -leggeds.
I get tired & disCouraged, but I will NOT let these frickin weirdos win.
leftstreet
(36,081 posts)On the 2016 anniversary of the interment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, Bradford stated "it was necessary".[30] He called Zuckerberg a "little arrogant self-hating Jew", and then-Fox News host Megyn Kelly as MegOBgyn Kelly.[30] He stated that "women have no business in combat" and that he would "shoot anyone who comes for my daughters".[30]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Bradford#Controversial_article_and_resignation_from_West_Point
I'm always vaguely creeped out by men who talk like this.