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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman

Trump’s pick for State Dept. deletes violent tweets as GOP blames left for political violence after Charlie Kirk killing

Jeremy Carl, a nominee for the State Department, quietly deleted thousands of inflammatory tweets as Republicans demand Democrats tone down the political rhetoric in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior during the first Trump administration, deleted at least 5,000 tweets from his account on X, CNN first reported. Many of these deleted posts can still be seen in the internet archive, the Wayback Machine.

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