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| Merritt Corrigan, the former Trump appointee too homophobic for even HIS administration. |
This is delicious.
In June, I wrote about Trump appointee Merritt Corrigan. At the time, she was the deputy White House liaison for the U.S. Agency for International Development who got into trouble because of a bunch of nasty tweets she put out in the past directed towards LGBTQ people, women and refugees. Please bear in mind the past tense tone of my statement. As of today, Corrigan is no longer the deputy White House liaision for US Agency for International Development.
She was fired. And boy is she pissed.
From CNBC:
My guess is that Corrigan was told that she would be let go beforehand, hence her Twitter hissy fit.
According to Politico, she called out several elected officials, including Sens. Tim Kaine and Cory Booker, claiming that they targeted her for her "Christian" beliefs:
Corrigan's rather enjoyable (sue me already. we didn't start this war but it's on) Twitter tirade was fun to read. I saved two very choice tweets:
Needless to say, girlfriend is getting dragged on Twitter via the responses. The poor dear. She just found out the hard way that she can't expect to get a salary drawn from LGBTQ tax dollars while spitting on us. And I don't think she will be transforming into the latest religious right fake martyr any time soon because of who she's chosen to align herself with.
Corrigan tweeted that on Thursday, she will hold a press conference to discuss supposed anti-Christian bigotry accompanied by Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl.
Now just in case you aren't familiar with Burkman and Wohl, they are considered to be the "Laurel and Hardy" of far right smear artists. They are known the audacity of their smears against elected officials, government officials, and presidential candidates from Pete Buttigieg to Robert Mueller and the sloppy, half-assed way the smears were attempted.
Yeah, girl. You certainly picked winners with those two. I would absolutely love to see the Alliance Defending Freedom or the Family Research Council aligning themselves with those two rejects from a bad Saturday morning cartoon.
But no matter if they do or don't, I'm chilling the champagne and getting the gourmet popcorn with the Grey Poupon butter ready for Thursday.
She was fired. And boy is she pissed.
From CNBC:
Merritt Corrigan, a deputy White House liaison for the U.S. Agency for International Development, was fired Monday, on the same day she ranted about LGBTQ issues on Twitter, according to two former Trump Administration officials who spoke to NBC News. Corrigan, who had held her post for just months, wrote on Twitter that she had been targeted for her “Christian beliefs.”
“Ms. Merritt Corrigan is no longer an employee at the USAID,” the agency’s acting spokesperson Pooja Jhunjhunwala said in a statement to NBC News. ″USAID takes any claim of discrimination seriously, and we will investigate any complaints of anti-Christian bias Ms. Corrigan has raised during her tenure at the Agency,” said Jhunjhunwala. Corrigan, an appointee of the Trump administration, joined the nation’s international development arm several months ago.
She had written on Twitter on Monday, before her termination was announced, “For too long, I’ve remained silent as the media has attacked me for my Christian beliefs, which are shared by the majority of Americans. Let me [be] clear: Gay marriage isn’t marriage. Men aren’t women. US-funded Tunisian LGBT soap operas aren’t America First.”
My guess is that Corrigan was told that she would be let go beforehand, hence her Twitter hissy fit.
According to Politico, she called out several elected officials, including Sens. Tim Kaine and Cory Booker, claiming that they targeted her for her "Christian" beliefs:
Corrigan also criticized the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and said they had “engaged in a corrupt campaign to remove me from USAID. . . "
Corrigan's rather enjoyable (sue me already. we didn't start this war but it's on) Twitter tirade was fun to read. I saved two very choice tweets:
Needless to say, girlfriend is getting dragged on Twitter via the responses. The poor dear. She just found out the hard way that she can't expect to get a salary drawn from LGBTQ tax dollars while spitting on us. And I don't think she will be transforming into the latest religious right fake martyr any time soon because of who she's chosen to align herself with.
Corrigan tweeted that on Thursday, she will hold a press conference to discuss supposed anti-Christian bigotry accompanied by Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl.
Now just in case you aren't familiar with Burkman and Wohl, they are considered to be the "Laurel and Hardy" of far right smear artists. They are known the audacity of their smears against elected officials, government officials, and presidential candidates from Pete Buttigieg to Robert Mueller and the sloppy, half-assed way the smears were attempted.
Yeah, girl. You certainly picked winners with those two. I would absolutely love to see the Alliance Defending Freedom or the Family Research Council aligning themselves with those two rejects from a bad Saturday morning cartoon.
But no matter if they do or don't, I'm chilling the champagne and getting the gourmet popcorn with the Grey Poupon butter ready for Thursday.
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