Trump Energy appointee steps down after claiming bigoted social media posts were from hackers

[KelleyKramer]

Good grief, is every single person in the Trump admin a racist scumbag


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Trump Energy appointee steps down after claiming bigoted social media posts were from ‘hackers’

Oops, the administration just lost another one of its "best people."


https://thinkprogress.org/trump-appointee-racist-tweets-c1f3cf8aa628/


William Bradford, a political appointee at the Department of Energy, resigned Thursday after a senator questioned Bradford’s claims that bigoted, racist, and offensive comments posted from his account were made by hackers and were under federal investigation.

Reporters at CNN earlier this week tied Bradford’s online presence to a Disqus commenting account, where many of the same comments Bradhad also been posted. The user — allegedly Bradford — wrote, “Well, it is a fact: Obama is the son of a fourth-rate p&*n actress and w@!re.”

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Bradford had previously come under fire for offensive tweets sent before he was appointed by President Donald Trump to head the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs. Bradford had also used social media and his right-wing column to question whether transgender and gender-nonconforming identity was “mental illness” to call for a second U.S. Civil War. He once referred to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a “self-hating Jew” and wrote an entire column devoted to Hillary Clinton’s “special place in Hell,” where he said “the Second Circle awaits women who vote for, not against. Hillary” (sic).

But, according to CNN, Bradford’s more recent comments caught the attention of Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), who took the opportunity to reach out to federal officials to see if there was, actually, any ongoing federal investigation. “Please confirm to my office in writing whether you or any other individual in the General Counsel’s office has been made aware of any cyberattacks against Mr. Bradford, and if so, what steps your office has taken to ensure that these activities have not compromised his ability to perform the duties demanded by his office,” Wyden wrote the DOE Deputy General Counsel Eric Fygi.
The senator also reached out to the FBI to see if that agency was conducting an investigation. If they were not, Wyden told FBI Director Christopher Wray, they should.


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[rurallib]

1. do any of these fuckers ever take responsibility for anything?

[ProudLib72]

2. I'm waiting for Donnie to shart himself

and blame it on Obama.

[KelleyKramer]

3. No they don't, ever!

How many times have you heard that... oh, no my Facebook account was hacked, that wasn't really me

And when he was totally busted, the racist asshole literally tucked tail and ran away

Pathetic