Carl Higbie, a Trump administration appointee, was forced to resign Thursday just after CNN reported his racist, sexist and anti-Muslim comments given on radio. According to a spokeswoman for the department, Higbie was chief of external affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Higbie declined to give any comment regarding the resignation.
Higbie’s resignation follows a CNN review of his past comments on radio appearances in which he makes disparaging remarks about multiple minority groups, The Hill said in a report.
CNN found an audio of a June 2013 radio appearance, when Higbie said, “I just don’t like Muslim people.” “Well people are like, ‘well, you can’t hate somebody just for being Muslim.’ It’s like, yeah, I can,” Higbie said.
CNN also reported that in a December 2013 appearance he commented that black women believe that “breeding is a form of government employment.”
Higbie, who is decorated former Navy SEAL, was largely criticized when he told his opinion on soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, explaining that the disorder is “a trait of a weak mind.”
According to CNN, Higbie joined the administration in August. He was a frequent surrogate for the Trump campaign on cable news during the 2016 campaign cycle. He previously stirred controversy when, during one television appearance, he defended Trump’s rumored proposal to create a registry of Muslim immigrants.
At one point Higbie proposed that the Japanese internment camps that were established during World War II can be used to provide legal precedent for the registry of Muslim immigrants that Trump wanted to make.
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