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riversedge

(70,445 posts) Thu Jan 18, 2018, 09:41 PM Jan 2018

Trump appointee Carl Higbie resigns as public face of agency that runs AmeriCorps after KFile revie

Source: cnn

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

Updated 6:19 PM ET, Thu January 18, 2018
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Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie resigned Thursday as chief of external affairs for the federal government's volunteer service organization
Higbie made shocking comments about black Americans, Muslims, women, LGBT people, veterans suffering from PTSD and immigrants

(CNN)WARNING: This story contains graphic language.

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"Effective immediately, Carl Higbie has resigned as Chief of External Affairs at CNCS," Samantha Jo Warfield, a spokesperson for CNCS, said in a statement.

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Shooting undocumented immigrants:
In a February 2013 episode of "Sound of Freedom," Higbie said American citizens with guns should be allowed to go to the border to shoot undocumented immigrants crossing into the US.

"What's so wrong with wanting to put up a fence and saying, 'hey, everybody with a gun, if you want to go shoot people coming across our border illegally, you can do it fo' free,'" Higbie said. "And you can do it on your own, and you'll be under the command of the, you know, National Guard unit or a Border Patrol, I think stick a fence six feet high with signs on it in both English and Spanish and it says 'if you cross this border, this is the American border, you cross it, we're going to shoot you.'"

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/politics/kfile-carl-higbie-on-the-radio/index.html

Lots of examples in the article.

Link to tweet

Former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie Accepts Trump Admin Post
https://www.newsmax.com › Home › Politics

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Trump appointee Carl Higbie resigns as public face of agency that runs AmeriCorps after KFile revie (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2018 OP

What a sick, evil little shit. nt Phoenix61 Jan 2018 #1

What a loser fuckstick DashOneBravo Jan 2018 #2

Yet another ubermensch bucolic_frolic Jan 2018 #3

Scumbag! Dawson Leery Jan 2018 #4

And he lasted . . . almost five months . . . hatrack Jan 2018 #5

Trump Admin most likely knew & did NOTHING. djacq Jan 2018 #6

I suspect being racist, homophobic, and sexist WERE his qualifications. SharonClark Jan 2018 #7

Sad but true Norbert10 Jan 2018 #9

There is no doubt. dalton99a Jan 2018 #11

OMG. I can't believe the caliber of people who have infiltrated our government. OMG. Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #8

Holy shit! BobTheSubgenius Jan 2018 #10

This guy is despicable. logosoco Jan 2018 #12

Wow! Thanks CNN maxrandb Jan 2018 #13

I am glad Cnn did the work. Lots of examples of vile talk in the article riversedge Jan 2018 #14

Phoenix61

(17,026 posts)

1. What a sick, evil little shit. nt

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 09:56 PM

Jan 2018

DashOneBravo

(2,679 posts)

2. What a loser fuckstick

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 09:57 PM

Jan 2018

bucolic_frolic

(43,490 posts)

3. Yet another ubermensch

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 10:00 PM

Jan 2018

who views unlike others as subhuman slobs

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)

4. Scumbag!

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 10:05 PM

Jan 2018

hatrack

(59,602 posts)

5. And he lasted . . . almost five months . . .

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 10:05 PM

Jan 2018

Seriously, how many more statements like these are out there from other appointees to Shitstain's Shitshow?

I'd be willing to bet hundreds of quips from dozens of assholes, and it would be lovely to watch media reporters stripping the tree of its rotting fruit.

djacq

(1,634 posts)

6. Trump Admin most likely knew & did NOTHING.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 10:08 PM

Jan 2018

I read half of the racist statements. As an African American, I’m appalled but not surprised.
This is the company that the Orange Clown likes to keep.... They just got busted.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)

7. I suspect being racist, homophobic, and sexist WERE his qualifications.

Reply to djacq (Reply #6)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 11:06 PM

Jan 2018

Norbert10

(61 posts)

9. Sad but true

Reply to SharonClark (Reply #7)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 11:27 PM

Jan 2018

dalton99a

(81,707 posts)

11. There is no doubt.

Reply to SharonClark (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 08:16 AM

Jan 2018

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

8. OMG. I can't believe the caliber of people who have infiltrated our government. OMG.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 11:07 PM

Jan 2018

That someone like this was put in a position of power at all is very disturbing. Horrible.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,580 posts)

10. Holy shit!

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 12:38 AM

Jan 2018

Do they not do psych evals on people entering special forces training? Or even the military in general? This guy has some serious, serious issues.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)

12. This guy is despicable.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 08:50 AM

Jan 2018

Another blatant attempt by trump to mess up good things in America.

My son just got back yesterday from Puerto Rico, working as a volunteer for Americorps. Many very fine young folks work for this organization to do some real good for people, and this is the shitstain the administration puts to head them.

maxrandb

(15,393 posts)

13. Wow! Thanks CNN

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 09:03 AM

Jan 2018

I mean, it must have taken so much "investigative work" and "tough journalism" to put the words "Carl Higbie" and "Radio Show" into a Google Search box and find this stuff!

Thank God the American people didn't find out about this guy until almost an entire year into his APPOINTMENT.

Hey, maybe if you had put "Trump" and "Porn Star", or "Trump" and "Mob Connections" into that same internet search box.....

FUCK THE GOD DAMNED MEDIA

riversedge

(70,445 posts)

14. I am glad Cnn did the work. Lots of examples of vile talk in the article

Reply to maxrandb (Reply #13)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 10:29 AM

Jan 2018

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