Deputy White House Liaison to the U.S. Agency for International Development Merritt Corrigan has been fired after making a series of controversial comments on LGBTQ rights, two former Trump Administration officials confirm to NBC News. https://t.co/D705ATOaaK
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 3, 2020
Meet Merritt Corrigan, the former deputy White House liaison at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) whose recent tweets about LGBTQ people and refugees went too far even for the Trump administration — and that’s saying a lot.
USAID is the country’s key foreign aid and international development agency, working on projects from security to public health.
Even when Corrigan first joined the agency in June, there were red flags everywhere. ProPublica looked into her social media presence and found statements attacking the nation’s “homo-empire” for pursuing a “tyrannical LGBT agenda.”
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But hey, she still landed the job.
Then her tweets got even worse. In one attack on refugees and immigrants, she posted: “America has no moral imperative to accept immigrants.”
And in a more recent thought fart, she ridiculed same-sex marriage, expressed a need for a “Christian patriarchy,” and argued that teaching girls that they are “equal” to men is wrong.
Just before she was fired on Monday, Corrigan sent off another string of inflammatory tweets attacking Democrats and the media, and accusing the USAID of holding a “rampant anti-Christian sentiment.”
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“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 clear: Gay marriage isn’t marriage. Men aren’t women. US-funded Tunisian LGBT soap operas aren’t America First,” she rattled.
And to make matters ever the more groan-worthy, Corrigan has now aligned herself with Jacob Wohl, the far-right troll who falsely accused Pete Buttigieg of sexual assault and went on to start an OnlyFans.
This match made in heaven are apparently planning a press conference for Thursday. Sounds…riveting.
Cam
“”And in a more recent thought fart, she ridiculed same-sex marriage, expressed a need for a “Christian patriarchy,” and argued that teaching girls that they are “equal” to men is wrong.””
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She is literally calling for the destruction of the American government and bringing in something more like the Holy Roman Empire which was ruled by the church.
These beliefs were known and they still hired her.
Toofie
Exactly. Her toxic history was not hidden. She was hired because she was pretty and kissed up to the president.
Josh in OR
What is she, twelve? She looks is barely old enough to date without a chaperone!
And her views are at LEAST twenty years older than she is, to boot. More proof that religion = child abuse and leads to broken adults.
funpitt412
This must be a misprint. Trump would not fire her. Remember, we were told he hates gays and became a racist overnight when he started running for president.
Kangol2
He’s been a racist since he was young, and was busted along with his father as a young man for systemic racial discrimination in housing, even having to sign a federal consent decree to stop his racist treatment of Black renters and homeowners. He’s also empowered anti-LGBTQ Christo-fascists like this wackjob woman. He’s indefensible and should be behind bars for his numerous crimes, though it looks like financial and tax fraud could finally do it!
shakes_head
Mike. Pence.
novadude
Another Christian wingnut who thinks they have standing to define marriage for others.
So nearly half of their marriages end in divorce (www.apa.org) and even more commit adultery (both of which are actually forbidden by their Good Book, unlike sodomy which was about failing to be hospitable to visitors; but what’s a little inaccuracy among bigots?) and they say my marriage is not real?
Typical Hypocritical Hogwash.
Toofie
They hypocrites. These people need to worry about their own marriage, not mine.
UlfRaynor
Little known fun fact, the word sodomy doesn’t appear in the Bible once, in any scripture.
mozzer
This is the kind of TRASH I would expect Trump to have in his administration. Bigoted racist b*tch! Bye “Merrit” (the stupid names those people have).
Chris
However, she was fired