Donald Trump’s nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, Jeremy Carl, has deleted at least 5,000 tweets from his account on X. According to CNN, this appears to be an attempt to scrub a history of extremist and racist commentary, including a post that called for the execution of a political opponent.
The effort to erase his digital past before the nomination wasn’t completely successful because, while he scrubbed his main account and even reportedly asked the Internet Archive to remove his tweets, he missed an older username associated with the same account. This oversight kept thousands of his posts publicly accessible, revealing a deeply troubling pattern of rhetoric that calls into question his fitness for a high-level diplomatic role.
