Biden administration stirs with promotions of PR staff
Former Pennsylvania Rep. Patrick Murphy (Democrat) and former Georgia Rep. Doug Collins (R) debated promotions on Biden’s communications staff and called for the president to submit to drug and cognitive testing during the first presidential debate.
A recently promoted White House official whose social media posts sparked strong backlash over the weekend is now being removed by thousands, according to information obtained by Fox News Digital.
Tyler Cherry, who was promoted to deputy White House communications director earlier this month after serving under Secretary Deb Haaland at the Interior Department for more than three years, has deleted roughly 2,500 posts from X, formerly known as Twitter. According to the Social Blade analytics website.
According to Social Blade, Cherry deleted 2,496 tweets between Sunday night and Monday morning, but the actual number is likely much higher as the only posts available on Cherry’s personal account X are responses to resurfaced posts. The former Interior Ministry official spoke out on Sunday following intense social media criticism over past posts in which he attacked police, criticized Republicans and spewed anti-Israel rhetoric.
Social media users, including popular conservative account LibsofTikTok, took notice of the now-deleted tweet.
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Interior Department spokesman Tyler Cherry was appointed to the role in 2021. (Getty Images)
“Tyler Cherry has deleted all of his tweets,” the account said. Posted in X.
“Did #TylerCherry delete all his incriminating tweets or did the Biden Administration delete them to cover his tracks?” Former Diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez Posted in X.
“The social media posts from when I was younger do not reflect my current views,” said Cherry, who was in her 20s at the time. I wrote to X“That’s it. I support the policies of this Administration and will continue to focus my outreach efforts on climate and environmental policy.”
A Fox News Digital report on Friday highlighted some of Cherry’s most controversial posts, including anti-Israel ones from 2014 that reflect much of the rhetoric heard on college campuses today.
“Let’s join the bar to support an end to the occupation of Palestine. No shame or shame. #ISupportGaza #FreePalestine,” Cherry said in a July 25, 2014, post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“I am praying for Baltimore, but even more so for an end to a capitalist police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial bias,” Cherry posted in 2015, during the riots that erupted in Baltimore after the death of a black man, Freddie Gray, in police custody.
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According to Social Blade, Tyler Cherry deleted 2,496 tweets between Sunday night and Monday morning. (Getty Images)
“It’s a good time to remember that modern policing is a direct evolution of slave patrols and lynch mobs,” he wrote in another post a few months later.
In 2018, Cherry Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security tasked with preventing cross-border crime and illegal immigration, will be abolished.
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In 2014, Cherry expressed support for the Palestinians on social media during the Gaza war led by Palestinian forces. Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist organizationfired hundreds of rockets at Israel, which responded with a strong response that included air strikes and ground invasions.
Cherry has a history of criticizing the Republican Party on social media, and in 2017 conservative Republicans Republican It focused on the “politics of white grievance.”
Cherry also frequently criticized photos of certain events on social media for having too many “white people,” National Review’s Nate Hochman wrote. I reported on X.
White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the White House is “very proud to welcome Tyler to our team.” The White House did not respond to inquiries about the now-deleted tweet.
