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Carl Higbie resigned from his post as external affairs chief at
the Corporation for National and Community Service, according to
a statement from CNCS spokeswoman Samantha Jo Warfield, CNN
said.
Higbie, the CNCS - an agency that runs volunteer groups
including AmeriCops, Senior Corps and the Social Innovation Fund
- and the White House were not immediately available for
comment.
CNN KFile, the network's investigative reporting team, posted
recordings of Higbie's internet talk radio show "Sound of
Freedom" from 2013 and 2014 in which he expresses his dislike of
Muslims, black people and homosexuality.
"I just don't like Muslim people. People always rip me a new one
for that. 'Carl, you're racist, you can't, you're sexist.' I'm
like, Jesus Christ, I just don't like Muslim people because
their ideology sucks," he says in one excerpt, describing Islam
as "the ideology of a child molester".
In another he tells Muslims: "Go back to your Muslim shithole
and go crap in your hands and bang little boys on Thursday
nights."
Trump was accused by Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of
repeatedly using the word "shithole" when speaking about African
countries during a meeting about immigration last week at the
White House, causing diplomatic outrage in many African
countries.
Trump has denied he is a racist, telling a reporter on Sunday:
"I'm the least racist person you have ever interviewed."
(Reporting by Rich McKay; Editing by Robin Pomeroy and Kevin
Liffey)
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