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August 8, 2017

Trump's Nominee for Agriculture Dept.'s Top Scientist Called Progressives "Race Traitors"
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In news from Washington, D.C., recently resurfaced blog posts show
Trump's nominee for the Department of Agriculture's top scientist, Sam
Clovis, calling progressives "race traitors" and "liars" and calling
President Obama a socialist supported by "criminal dissidents who were
bent on overthrowing the government of the United States." Clovis has
also come under fire for lacking the credentials to be the Agriculture
Department's top scientist, given that he has no experience with
agricultural research and denies the human impact on climate change.


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