They explained the annual human rights reports compiled by staffers and submitted to Congress by February had sections removed by Trump administration officials on anything related to maternal and reproductive health, LGBTQ+ rights, or minority groups because they don’t fall into the administration’s “America first” priority.
The advisor also cited a Trump political appointee as an example, Samuel Samson, 27, who wrote a recent Substack article published by the state department criticizing Europe for “mass migration” and criticizing criminal investigations into far-right factions in the UK and Germany.
Samson has proposed the state department directly fund French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who is currently facing embezzlement charges in France. And he recently went on a trip to South Africa, which the adviser said was also used as a family vacation.
A spokesperson for the state department said the trip was to meet with government leaders and civil society about the Expropriation Act, which has been criticized as unfair to white landowners, the rights of white minorities in South Africa, and Trump administration priorities.
“They’re getting rid of people who are defending human rights across the world, and those are being cut to promote the type of ideology that is completely out of line with mainstream political and foreign policy thought,” the adviser said. “They’re talking about ‘remigration’’, a far-right European concept of cleansing via mass deportations or promoting voluntary return of non white immigrants and their descendants. It’s a madhouse.”