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

Source: The Independent

Friday 26 September 2025 17:24 EDT


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.

President Donald Trump nominated Carl in January to serve as the Assistant Secretary of State for the International Organizations. The Senate has not yet confirmed Carl. The posts were deleted at some point before his nomination, CNN reported.

This tranche of his removed tweets included posts calling for political retribution, or sometimes, violence. Some labeled January 6 Capitol rioters as “political prisoners,” another suggested Joe Biden should be imprisoned, and one called for a political opponent to be executed.

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