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"Energy Department Official Who Sent Disparaging Tweets Resigns" [1]

"William Bradford, a Trump appointee who sent racist and anti-Semitic tweets before being chosen to lead the Energy Department’s Office of Indian Energy, resigned from his position on Thursday.

'Bradford tendered his resignation this afternoon and is no longer with the Department of Energy,' Shaylyn Hynes, an Energy Department spokeswoman, said by email.

Before he joined the administration, Bradford had referred to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, as a 'little arrogant self-hating Jew' and had called President Obama 'Kenyan creampuff' on Twitter."

Dino Grandoni reports for the Washington Post August 31, 2017. [2]

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Source: Washington Post [2], 09/01/2017
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