President Donald Trump’s nominee for a high-ranking State Department post told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday he will not stop making posts and statements as he waits for congressional confirmation.
Members from both parties on the committee grilled Jeremy Carl, who the White House tapped to serve as assistant secretary of state for International Organizations, during a confirmation hearing, over a string of comments Democrats call antisemitic and racist that have surfaced in recent months.
“I greatly understand the importance of restraint and conduct,” said Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative…
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