Female Trump Appointee Has Said Women Shouldn’t Hold Public Office, Denounced Liberal Democracy

TOPLINE

Merritt Corrigan, who was recently appointed by President Trump as the White House’s deputy liaison to the U.S. Agency for International Development, has a history of offensive comments about women, Muslims and the LGBTQ community, and has denounced liberal democracy while praising Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban, according to several reports.

KEY FACTS

In online posts, Corrigan praised Orban, the far-right, anti-Muslim authoritarian prime minister of Hungary, as a “shining champion of Western Civilization,” when she worked at the U.S. embassy in Hungary, according to a ProPublica report.

“Liberal democracy is little more than a front for the war being waged against us by those who fundamentally despise not only our way of life, but life itself,” Corrigan wrote in another post.

Corrigan also slammed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for supporting same-sex marriage, calling it a “sick statement,” and arguing it’s “exactly why women shouldn’t be in office. They always advocate for themselves at the expense of men,” according to a report from CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Nathan McDermott.

Kaczynski and McDermott also uncovered tweets in which Corrigan expressed support for far-right European political parties like France’s National Front and Germany’s AfD, called for “mass deportations” of Muslim refugees, and slammed the Republican party for its “tacit endorsement of the gay agenda.”

Corrigan has also espoused hardline anti-feminist views, calling for the establishment of a “Christian Patriarchy” and arguing that it’s wrong to “empower” women and tell them they are equal to men.

Corrigan’s extreme views, and those of Bethany Kozma and Mark Lloyd, have reportedly evoked outcry from her USAID colleagues, causing an internal revolt within the agency, but Acting USAID Administrator John Barsa put out a statement defending the appointees and slamming articles about them as “unwarranted and malicious attacks.”

Chief Critic

USAID spokesperson Pooja Jhunjhunwala, in a statement in response to the ProPublica report, said the agency had a “zero-tolerance policy of any form of discrimination or harassment based on gender, race, sexual orientation, religion or any other possible distinguishing characteristic that can define any of us.”

Tangent

As of now, Corrigan’s Twitter account is set to private, and she has removed phrases like “conservative nationalist” and “Make Europe Great Again” from her bio, leaving only “[retweets] ≠ endorsements”

News Peg

The revelations about Corrigan come at an inflection point over race in America. Trump has been repeatedly slammed for his handling of the protests and civil unrest in response to the death of George Floyd. Polls taken earlier this month have found that as few as 33% of Americans approved of Trump’s handling of the death and the protests, which have been dragging down his overall poll numbers. Trump’s weakness on these increasingly critical issues may come back to bite him in November.


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