The posts by Merritt Corrigan have reportedly caused an internal revolt at USAID, which an agency spokesperson said has a “zero-tolerance policy” towards discrimination.
Merritt Corrigan, who was recently appointed by President Trump as the White House’s deputy liaison to the U.S. Agency for International Development, has a history of offensive comments about women, Muslims and the LGBTQ community, and has denounced liberal democracy while praising Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban, according to several reports.... [+]
in Washington, D.C. Additional security fences and barriers were added along the south perimeter to prevent people from jumping the fence and entering the restricted White House grounds. The Secret Service tightened the security on the south side in 2017 by closing access to the entire fence line on the South Lawn. In online posts, Corrigan praised Orban, the far-right, anti-Muslim authoritarian prime minister of Hungary, as a “shining champion of Western Civilization,” when she worked at the U.
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