Jeremy Carl, President Trump’s nominee for a senior State Department post, struggled at his confirmation hearing on Thursday to answer what should have been an easy question, since he wrote an entire book about it: What is white identity and why is it under threat?
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But Mr. Carl’s halting defense of his theory on “white erasure,” along with previous statements about race and Jews, has put his nomination in danger. A Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee chairman, John Curtis, Republican of Utah, came out in opposition immediately after the hearing was gaveled closed.
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The White House was standing by the nominee on Friday evening. In an email, the press office praised his work during the president’s first term and called him highly qualified to serve at the State Department.
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If confirmed, Mr. Carl would lead outreach to institutions such as the United Nations. He previously served in the first Trump administration’s Department of the Interior after making a name for himself as an international energy expert at Stanford University.
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He is a fellow at the Claremont Institute, a Trump-aligned research organization that became the intellectual nerve center of the American right.
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Mr. Carl has argued that white people should organize as a group to protect their rights.
“White Americans are increasingly second-class citizens in a country their ancestors founded and in which, until recently, they were the overwhelming majority of the population,” he writes in his 2024 book, “The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart.”
He also accused the Democratic Party of waging an “all-out assault on the rights of white people.” (About 64 percent of the people who voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 were white, compared to Joe Biden’s 61 percent in 2020, according to Pew Research.)
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The Trump administration has made its opposition to antisemitism central to its attacks on higher education and its efforts to deport pro-Palestinian students. But Mr. Carl is only the latest in a series of the administration’s own officials who have been accused of antisemitism.
During Thursday’s hearing, Sen. Jacky Rosen, Democrat of Nevada, who is Jewish, read a series of statements Mr. Carl had previously made about Jewish people.
“‘The Jews love to see themselves as oppressed,’” she said, quoting a 2024 podcast appearance. “‘Jews have often loved to see themselves as the victim, rather than accept they are participants in history,’” she continued.
Mr. Carl has also espoused the Great Replacement Theory, the notion that Western elites, sometimes manipulated by Jews, want to “replace” white Americans with nonwhite immigrants.
When Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, asked if Mr. Carl believed there was an active effort to replace white Americans, Mr. Carl responded, “the Democratic Party, through its immigration policies, has certainly shown signs of that.”
However, Mr. Carl did walk back some of his statements that have been labeled antisemitic.
“I made some comments in interviews about minimizing the effect of the Holocaust that were absolutely wrong,” he said. “And I’m not going to sit here and defend them.”
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