A newly promoted White House official who caught attention for previous anti-police and anti-ICE comments came around with an apology on Sunday.
A former Interior Department communications director named Tyler Cherry stepped into a new role on the White House communications team but his old tweets followed him, prompting outrage that – once again – the Biden administration hires and promotes those with radical, leftist views.
Cherry’s old social media posts resurfaced after news of his new position, exposing his support of anti-Israel organizations, his call for the abolishment of ICE and comparisons of police officers to slave patrols.
Yes looks like you will fit in well with the current admin🙄#Trump2024SaveAmerica 🇺🇸 https://t.co/fttd7H66by
— Millie (@MillRuss2020) June 23, 2024
“Praying for #Baltimore, but praying even harder for an end to a capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial biases,” he had posted in 2015 during the time when Freddie Gray had died while in police custody.
“Time to recall that the modern day police system is a direct evolution of slave patrols and lynch mobs,” he had also reportedly tweeted.
But on Sunday, after reports circulated about his tweets, Cherry came forward with an attempt to clear his own record.
“Past social media posts from when I was younger do not reflect my current views. Period. I support this Administration’s agenda – and will continue my communications work focused on our climate and environmental policies,” wrote the White House official who spent more than three years at Interior working for Secretary Deb Haaland.
Past social media posts from when I was younger do not reflect my current views. Period. I support this Administration’s agenda – and will continue my communications work focused on our climate and environmental policies.
— Tyler Cherry (@TylerACherry) June 23, 2024
“We’re very proud to have Tyler on the team,” White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital, predictably defending Biden’s newest hire.
Social media users were unconvinced and reminded Cherry how radical some of his views once – and maybe still – are in one after another blistering reality check on X.
Are you really trying to cheap fake your past tweets? pic.twitter.com/B3fq4Wq5pr
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 23, 2024
Are these all “manipulated cheap fakes”? pic.twitter.com/160IebZj3m
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 23, 2024
That’s really awesome to hear Tyler— could you elaborate on what views are different and which one of these past posts do not reflect your current views? pic.twitter.com/pzdbBJg1dA
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) June 23, 2024
Including this one? pic.twitter.com/te20QoDOnb
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) June 23, 2024
lol 🤣
You got hired for “Comms” work and you didn’t even think to check back on your own comms.
What a great start.
Already back peddling. Already apologizing.
And already lying.
You’re gonna fit right into the culture!
Godspeed, and good luck 👍
— Anoximander (@Anoximander) June 23, 2024
“I still believe these things but it’s politically inconvenient for me to be publicly KNOWN to believe these things at this stage of my career so please pretend to believe that I’ve ‘evolved’ in my thinking”
~ You
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) June 23, 2024
I’m sorry, when college athletes have their careers ruined for stuff they said when they were younger, it applies to everyone. The new rules come for everyone.
— jordan 🐝 (@jortron) June 23, 2024
Not that easy to distance from, bud. You now have to play by the rules you lot put in place over the last 8 years. Everything in your past is fair game. That’s the standard now.
— Unserious Stoic (@kingsfan231) June 23, 2024
You mean the ones from 8 years ago or less? How old are you, 12?
— ⚔️Princess Cutabitch™️⚔️ 🏴 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@PCutabitch) June 23, 2024
