President Trump fired the librarian of the congress because she promoted diversity, fairness and inclusion, the White House said on Friday, so that Dr. Carla Hayden was one of the most controversial leaders of color to be focused in the administration campaign to suppress discussions about race and gender at the cultural institutions of America.
Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary of the White House, said the administration believed that Dr. Hayden “did not fit the needs of the American people”, and that her resignation was the result of “quite in terms of things she had done in the Library of Congress in the pursuit of dei”
Mrs. Leavitt did not provide proof of “dei” followings to which Dr. Hayden was involved. She accused Dr. Hayden “to allow inappropriate books in the library for children.”
“We don’t believe that she served the interests of the American taxpayer well,” Mrs Leavitt added. “So she has been removed from her position and the president is well within his rights to do that.”
Dr. Hayden could not be reached on Friday for comment.
Dr. Hayden, whose Dismissal for shocked academics and furious congress democratswas appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2016 and served during the first term of Mr Trump.
Dr. Hayden was the newest high-ranking black government official who had to be settled in the crusade of the administration against Dei who has become a characteristic of his second term and often targeted women and people of color.
Gene. Charles Q. Brown Jr.A four -star hunter pilot known as CQ Who only became the second afro -amerikaan In order to be appointed chairman of the joint staff chefs, it was replaced in the midst of the president’s insight that the leadership of the army was too entangled in diversity issues.
Dr. Hayden had also become a conservative target when the administration made efforts to awaken the federal government of employees and entities.
Hours before Dr. Hayden was informed of her resignation on Thursday, called a conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation to shoot her on social media.
“The current #librarianofcongress Carla Hayden is awake, anti-Trump and promotes transition games,” The posted organization. “It’s time to get her out and rent a new man for the job!”
Hours after her resignation was made public, the group praised the president. “Thank you @potus !!!!,” They wrote. “Woke & Radical Librarian or Congress Carla Hayden has been fired!”
Dr. Hayden became the librarian of the congress After a long run As the main librarian in Baltimore, her old house, where she had revised the wrestling public library system of the city. She was fired in an e-mail with two sentences from Trent Morse, the deputy director of the White House staff, who simply addressed the valued librarian as ‘Carla’.
In a letter to the staff of the library on Friday, Robert R. Newlen, the representative of Dr. Hayden who has known her for 40 years and in the meantime replaced her, her reputation as an “unbiased, non -party -bound, energetic official” in the US Congress.
Tim Balk contributed reporting.
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